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You seem a little confused Paul..
The advice posted by Bob Harris is quite right.
Some SATA controllers can utilize standard IDE drivers (for example, but not
exclusively, the Intel ICH5 and ICHR5 fully integrated in the south
bridge) - these examples are what Bob is referring to as 'native'. If the
mainboard has these chipsets no introduction of third-party drivers are
needed by the F6 method.
Some manufacturers, one example being Asus, in certain circumstances, can
require the setting up of a RAID array on a single SATA drive before
installation of XP - I believe Bob is speaking about his own experience, and
the advice given to him from Asus, here.
As for your comment "F6 doesn't work on 1 SATA hdd. The drivers are only
really needed for RAID 0 or 1 / other" - simply not true unless the SATA
controller can utilize standard IDE drivers as described above. And I'm
speaking from my own experience on this point - that's why Silicon Image
produce 2 drivers for their controllers, SATALink for Non-RAID SATA drives
and SATARaid for a RAID array.
A third-party driver will still need to be provided for a slave drive if
'native' support for SATA (see above) has not been implemented by the
mainboard manufacturer.
Hope that helps to clear up your confusion.
Pete
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"Paul" contributed
> Well no SATA is native to 2000 and XP.
>
> 2000 and XP can support upto 6 SATA's
>
> 98/Me/NT 4 are not. BUT they'll still work
> if you set this up in the BIOS. 98 and under support
> upto 4 SATA's.
>
> If the BIOS supports the SATA (builtin) and you only
> have 1 SATA, leave RAID alone. You don't
> need it. If you want to clean install on a SATA
> set the XP CD as the bootdisk save the settings in
> BIOS and it'll format the SATA, then install XP
> onto it. F6 doesn't work on 1 SATA hdd. The drivers
> are only really needed for RAID 0 or 1 / other.
>
> If you want to format a SATA as a slave, (if you already use an IDE for
XP).
> Connect the SATA up, then boot XP. Then go to Control Panel,
> Admin/Tools/Computer Management/Disk Management. Find the SATA, and you
> should be able to format it, within Windows.
>
>
> "Bob Harris" advised
> > First, many SATA controllers are also RAID controllers. If your is one
of
> > those, then you probably need to create a RAID arrary before attempting
to
> > install XP. The motherboard manual should say something about this. If
> you
> > have a single SATA hard drive, it may automatically make an array of one
> > disk, or you may need to use some custom setup option ot force this to
> > happen.
> >
> > Second, XP does not yet have native support for SATA, so it ain't
> plug&play.
> > You need to hit F6 during the installation of XP and feed the XP
installer
> a
> > floppy with SATA drivers on it. It must be a floppy. If the drivers
came
> > on a CD, you must copy them to a floppy. Be sure to copy everything in
te
> > SATA driver directory. I found that a file called "oemsetup.txt" was
> > absolutely essential when loading XP. (I have an ASUS P4S8X
motherboard.)
> >
> > In fact, instead of copying from the CD, first check to verify that you
> have
> > the latest drivers. Also, check whether you have the latest motherboard
> > BIOS.
> >
> > If the XP installation keeps balking, try using a disk preparation
> > CD/floppy, such as nearly always comes with new hard drives. Can the
disk
> > preparation tools see the SATA drive? If it cannot, check connection
and
> > the RAID array thing I mentioned above. If it can see the disk, then
the
> XP
> > installer should also be able to see it, if you provide the latest
> drivers.
> >
> > "Sandy" asked
> > > Every time i try to install windows on to my new serial
> > > ATA hard drive it says it cant find any hard drives
> > > installed but i heard that serial ATA hard drives just
> > > need putting in and windows installed on them but it just
> > > wont work. Please tell me what is wrong.
> >
> >
>
>
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