SATA Drivers

[Me]

last year I replaced my old MOBo with a WinFast K8S755A and moved from a
PATA drive to a SATA.

During the OS installation I had to do the F6 to load the SATA drivers. The
OS being an upgrade Windows XP Home which in theory is a full version. I
seem to recall having to show it the 98 disc at the time.

The OS has been rather flaky over the last few months so I am going to clean
install XP Pro onto the same SATA drive.

Will Pro have the SATA drivers or is this a trait of the MoBo in question
thus having to do F6 again for the drivers.

thanks
dj

 

[SteveH]

last year I replaced my old MOBo with a WinFast K8S755A and moved
from a PATA drive to a SATA.

During the OS installation I had to do the F6 to load the SATA
drivers. The OS being an upgrade Windows XP Home which in theory is a
full version. I seem to recall having to show it the 98 disc at the
time.
The OS has been rather flaky over the last few months so I am going
to clean install XP Pro onto the same SATA drive.

Will Pro have the SATA drivers or is this a trait of the MoBo in
question thus having to do F6 again for the drivers.

thanks
dj

You'll likely need 'em again, but there's only one way to find out..

SteveH

 

[Andrew Bailey]

last year I replaced my old MOBo with a WinFast K8S755A and moved from a
PATA drive to a SATA.

During the OS installation I had to do the F6 to load the SATA drivers.
The OS being an upgrade Windows XP Home which in theory is a full version.
I seem to recall having to show it the 98 disc at the time.

The OS has been rather flaky over the last few months so I am going to
clean install XP Pro onto the same SATA drive.

Will Pro have the SATA drivers or is this a trait of the MoBo in question
thus having to do F6 again for the drivers.

thanks
dj

Hi dj,

You "should" only need to do the F6-Install 3rd Part Drivers thang if you
intend to use RAID. If you're just using the SATA drives as you would any
IDE drives then they should be detected as normal. Try it, I would imagine
installing RAID drivers onto a non-RAID system is not a good idea.

Hope this helps

Andy

 

[SteveH]

Hi dj,

You "should" only need to do the F6-Install 3rd Part Drivers thang if
you intend to use RAID. If you're just using the SATA drives as you
would any IDE drives then they should be detected as normal. Try it,
I would imagine installing RAID drivers onto a non-RAID system is not
a good idea.
Hope this helps

Andy

Not always the case. I've built 2 or 3 PC's in the past where drivers are
needed just to get the SATA ports to work in IDE mode under XP. I think it's
only where the SATA ports run in native mode that you don't need XP drivers.

SteveH

 

[Me]

Not always the case. I've built 2 or 3 PC's in the past where drivers are
needed just to get the SATA ports to work in IDE mode under XP. I think
it's only where the SATA ports run in native mode that you don't need XP
drivers.

SteveH

SteveH is correct, when I first installed XP on this MoBo it would not
recognise the drive until I used the drivers on a floppy........

Still I shall be trying it out on Friday........I'll let you know.

I did not need them on my other new Intel/Sata build which I mentioned in
another post.

thanks
dj

 

[spodosaurus]

SteveH is correct, when I first installed XP on this MoBo it would not
recognise the drive until I used the drivers on a floppy........

Still I shall be trying it out on Friday........I'll let you know.

I did not need them on my other new Intel/Sata build which I mentioned in
another post.

thanks
dj

I'm not sure if it matters, but are you working with a service pack
applied copy of XP Pro? If not, you can save considerable time by
slipstreaming SP2.

Ari

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[Me]

I'm not sure if it matters, but are you working with a service pack
applied copy of XP Pro? If not, you can save considerable time by
slipstreaming SP2.

Ari

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yes, XPSP2 will be loaded.............thanks.

 

[Andy]

SteveH is correct, when I first installed XP on this MoBo it would not
recognise the drive until I used the drivers on a floppy........

Still I shall be trying it out on Friday........I'll let you know.

I did not need them on my other new Intel/Sata build which I mentioned in
another post.

The K8S755A has two different SATA interfaces. If you use the SiI3112,
you definitely need to load its driver. If you use the SiS 964
southbridge SATA interface and configure it as IDE, you probably
don't.

 

[Larry Roberts]

Hi dj,

You "should" only need to do the F6-Install 3rd Part Drivers thang if you
intend to use RAID. If you're just using the SATA drives as you would any
IDE drives then they should be detected as normal. Try it, I would imagine
installing RAID drivers onto a non-RAID system is not a good idea.

Hope this helps

Andy

That's what I thought, as my first s939 SATA II mobo (Nforce4
Ultra chipset), didn't need them, but my current AM2 mobo (ATI Xpress
1150 + SB600 chipset) does need them. I only use a single SATA II HDD.
However, I used nLite to slipstream the drivers into my WinXP Pro SP2
install disk.

 

[Me]

last year I replaced my old MOBo with a WinFast K8S755A and moved from a
PATA drive to a SATA.

During the OS installation I had to do the F6 to load the SATA drivers.
The OS being an upgrade Windows XP Home which in theory is a full version.
I seem to recall having to show it the 98 disc at the time.

The OS has been rather flaky over the last few months so I am going to
clean install XP Pro onto the same SATA drive.

Will Pro have the SATA drivers or is this a trait of the MoBo in question
thus having to do F6 again for the drivers.

thanks
dj

Is it the IDE drivers that are required for the SATA ports. The disc that
came with the MoBo only has IDE or SATA RAID.

Maybe that's where I went wrong last time. I think I used the raid driver.

I assumed IDE drivers were for the standard IDE port but I think I could be
wrong.

 

[spodosaurus]

Is it the IDE drivers that are required for the SATA ports. The disc that
came with the MoBo only has IDE or SATA RAID.

Maybe that's where I went wrong last time. I think I used the raid driver.

I assumed IDE drivers were for the standard IDE port but I think I could be
wrong.

If you're not using SATA RAID and have the drives using seen as IDE
using the BIOS you do not need a driver. Rather than just updating the
IDE drivers from the disk, download the latest chipset drivers for your
board.

Ari

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http://www.marrow.org/

 

[tpow]

last year I replaced my old MOBo with a WinFast K8S755A and moved from a
PATA drive to a SATA.

During the OS installation I had to do the F6 to load the SATA drivers.
The OS being an upgrade Windows XP Home which in theory is a full version.
I seem to recall having to show it the 98 disc at the time.

The OS has been rather flaky over the last few months so I am going to
clean install XP Pro onto the same SATA drive.

Will Pro have the SATA drivers or is this a trait of the MoBo in question
thus having to do F6 again for the drivers.

thanks
dj

well this is me up and running on the newly installed XPPROSP2 and I did NOT
have to load SATA drivers..........I 'ad 'em ready tho' just in case.

thanks all

dj

 

[Timothy Daniels]

well this is me up and running on the newly installed XPPROSP2
and I did NOT have to load SATA drivers..........I 'ad 'em ready
tho' just in case.

thanks all

dj

Thanks for the follow-up.

*TimDaniels*