XP Home drivers for SATA

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Drives ( all types ) use a Microsoft driver, but what you need are the
controller drivers. Usually these are provided by the Motherboard or
controller card manufacturer.
 
NC User said:
How can I download the MS drivers for a SATA drive? Just the newer
drivers,
not SP2.
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SATA hard drives do not need a driver in any OS.

XP will recognize a SATA controller natively if bios setup is configured as
a SATA controller. Prior MS OSes do not.

My motherboard, as many others, have a facility of reconfiguring the SATA
controller as a remap of one of the 4 choices for an ide hard drive in the
bios setup. That is, primary/secondary master/slave. This happens by
default on my motherboard IF there are no ide devices attached. You cannot
replace an onboard ide already configured that way. Only one SATA drive can
attach to a SATA controller. No driver is required in that case.

I could not locate a specific SATA controller driver for my motherboard in
any case.
Dave
 
Lil' Dave said:
XP will recognize a SATA controller natively if bios setup is configured as
a SATA controller. Prior MS OSes do not.
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I believe you will find that incorrect, whilst winxp may recognise Intel &
some other sata controlers it doesnt recognise them all
 
DL said:
I believe you will find that incorrect, whilst winxp may recognise Intel &
some other sata controlers it doesnt recognise them all
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This has already been mentioned in the thread. IIRC user is already using
SATA HDD.

The SATA controllers you refer to are considered peripherals. While they may
be attatched to the mother board, they have a seperate BIOS, which appears
after initial post screen.
 
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