This business of SATA drivers

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I copied the following from my System Info

Are these the SATA drivers one would needed to reinstall the OS?

Cannot I just make dupes of these two instead of going bonkers looking
for them at the Dell site?

Name Intel(R) 82801FB/FBM Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 266F
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\pciide.sys (5.1.2600.0
(XPClient.010817-1148), 3.25 KB (3,328 bytes), 12/31/1979 11:00 PM)

Name Primary IDE Channel
Manufacturer (Standard IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers)
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\atapi.sys (5.1.2600.2180
Name Intel(R) 82801FR SATA AHCI Controller
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\iastor.sys (4.0.0.6211, 456.25 KB

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Not necessarily true. Depends on the model and the BIOS setting.

"William R. Walsh" <newsgroups1@saveyourspam.walshcomptech.com> wrote in
message news:QGzbe.17838$c24.10182@attbi_s72...
> Hi!
>
> Unlike a LOT of SATA implementations, the Intel chipset SATA does not
> require any special drivers. They are available (or at least an INF file
> update that makes the SATA support appear with its proper name), but you
> don't really need them to get up and running.
>
> William
>
>