IDE vs SATA drives
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- KVRist
- 152 posts since 23 Sep, 2003 from Oregon
Doesn't it have something to do with how the SATA controller and the RAID controller are incorporated into the motherboard? I remember reading that if these controllers are "native" to the motherboard (chipset?) then the F6 > floppy install procedure isn't necessary. Now, I'm not exactly sure what they mean by "native" or how you would know such a thing.
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- KVRAF
- 7886 posts since 24 Feb, 2003 from Earth, USA
I've worked with 'built in' SCSI raid controllers on servers. You HAVe to hit F6 at the beginning, otherwise the OS will never finish its installation. Done a TON of these.duncan wrote:Doesn't it have something to do with how the SATA controller and the RAID controller are incorporated into the motherboard? I remember reading that if these controllers are "native" to the motherboard (chipset?) then the F6 > floppy install procedure isn't necessary. Now, I'm not exactly sure what they mean by "native" or how you would know such a thing.
Really, it depends on what is embedded.Devon
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 289 posts since 8 Jul, 2004 from UK
Well just to confuse things even further this particular mother' (ASUS P4C800-E) has two SATA port pairs - the first seems to be a native one but can also make use of the Intel ICH5R chipset for RAID. The second pair are purely RAID SATA which use the Promise PDC20378 RAID controller. So I'm gonna be using the former.
So any suggestions on how to format/partition/install XP so that I can make it a dual boot SATA drive? Do I just use the drive's formatter software to create two partitions and then install XP twice, one for each partition - is it that straightforward? Presumably I'll need a boot manager program? Anyone know of any that would definitely work on SATA? In fact has anyone ever tried this! If not I think I'll play it safe and go for an IDE boot drive...
So any suggestions on how to format/partition/install XP so that I can make it a dual boot SATA drive? Do I just use the drive's formatter software to create two partitions and then install XP twice, one for each partition - is it that straightforward? Presumably I'll need a boot manager program? Anyone know of any that would definitely work on SATA? In fact has anyone ever tried this! If not I think I'll play it safe and go for an IDE boot drive...