Weird, but worth rechecking next reinstall

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GA-K8NS mobo for AMD64 and SATA drive. Originally, I had to do the
"find the SATA driver" on the cd to make a floppy and detect the SATA
drive when installing WinXP Pro. I ran a bunch of tests on the machine,
and when I was done, I decided to totally reinstall the OS from a clean
format and repartition of the drive. I cold booted to the WinXP install
cd, and, naturally, I forgot to put the floppy disk in the A-drive so I
could
F6, and install the SATA driver. It wasn't until I was actually
partitioning
the drive that I remembered that I was suppose to load the SATA
driver. I let XP install, and on reboot, I eyeballed the POST screen to
see what kind of hard drive the system thought it had. It detected
nothing, but XP booted normally ???????? Then, I put in the mobo
drivers cd, and installed all the drivers .. chipset, sound, etc.
On reboot, this time, the POST screen said it found the SATA
drive, and bootup went normally as before. What the heck?

johns
 
I've had the same kind of situation pop up using a Biostar T-force 6100
board /AMD 64 3000+ system. Using Win XP w/SP2. I kept thinking Windows now
came pre-loaded with a native SATA driver. I was so accepting of that
thought that I wrongly suggested it to someone else who asked the question.
Looking at the bios right from the start, before installation of Windows
I find that the 250 gb WD SATA drive is automatically being picked up as an
IDE drive on IDE third channel as a master. I'd heard someone else write
when I questioned this on the last build I'd made with this combination that
the mb's bios was able to emulate an IDE configuration to allow the SATA to
be recognized. Hence no need was there for a floppy drive SATA driver
throughout the installation.
 
We'll do this from now on :-) I can never find those SATA
drivers for the floppy ... and I can't find the floppy either.
That business needed to go away. Thanks, BIOS writers!

johns
 
Jan Alter said:
I've had the same kind of situation pop up using a Biostar T-force 6100
board /AMD 64 3000+ system. Using Win XP w/SP2. I kept thinking Windows now
came pre-loaded with a native SATA driver. I was so accepting of that
thought that I wrongly suggested it to someone else who asked the question.
Looking at the bios right from the start, before installation of Windows
I find that the 250 gb WD SATA drive is automatically being picked up as an
IDE drive on IDE third channel as a master. I'd heard someone else write
when I questioned this on the last build I'd made with this combination that
the mb's bios was able to emulate an IDE configuration to allow the SATA to
be recognized. Hence no need was there for a floppy drive SATA driver
throughout the installation.
Click to expand...
Hmmm could somebody elaborate on this. Is sata in IDE emulation(?) still
performing at sata specs? I have not seen this happen, ever.

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