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Does Windows XP install disc contain SATA drivers?

For some reason, probably royalty reasons, MS doesn't support SATA natively [without drivers] at the moment.
Fdd is the only way i know.
 
On a similar note. I'm thinking of getting one of the USB Floppy/7-1 card reader combos. Can I use that to install my SATA drivers? or, do i need a floppy plugged into the FDC port on the mobo?
 
The usb floppy works.

also the only mobo which I actually didn't have to use sata drivers was I think the last one I did, which was a chaintech vnf3-250. It stumped me for like 10 minutes and then i tried w/o any raid drivers then it worked. lol.
 
The USB floppy works? I read xp only looks for a:

Why is it some mobos can install xp? Isn't it an xp issue and not a mobo issue?
 
I've been wondering this myself. The guy who lives next door to me in my dorm just built a a new P4 system and was intalling his XP Pro onto a his SATA raptor. He didn't have to intsall drivers or anything. i'll ask what chipset and everything he was using later tonight. Odd though. Do you think maybe the XP Cd's with SP2 might have them on there already? That was the only thing I could think of before he started installing it.

And yes, I've read a couple times that nvidia chipsets don't need drivers, but i think via does(i use it, and i need drivers).
 
my DFI Lanparty (NF3-250GB) definately needs drivers with my old copy of WinxpPro. It was pre SP1 though. 🙂 I'm old school.

Not sure if it works w/ sp2
 
Originally posted by: Tarrant64
I've been wondering this myself. The guy who lives next door to me in my dorm just built a a new P4 system and was intalling his XP Pro onto a his SATA raptor. He didn't have to intsall drivers or anything. i'll ask what chipset and everything he was using later tonight. Odd though. Do you think maybe the XP Cd's with SP2 might have them on there already? That was the only thing I could think of before he started installing it.

And yes, I've read a couple times that nvidia chipsets don't need drivers, but i think via does(i use it, and i need drivers).
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Yes, most of the modern Intel boards do this.
IIRC, it's because the SATA controller emulates an IDE controller for detection purposes.

I remember when I was testing a pre-release D915 board back in August, and XP installed to a SATA drive without drivers. It was an original, pre-SP2, pre-SP1 copy as well.
 
Just installed XP on a single SATA, no special drivers needed, using old XP pre SP1 disc

Board is Soltek K8AN2E-GR, drive is Hitachi 80GB SATA 72,000RPM

 
I didn't load any drivers when I installed on my SATA drive. (MSI Gforce 3 board)
Don't even have a floppy drive in the system.
 
I was building my system last night and realized the notes I got for my DFI Lan Party Ultra stated I needed a floppy to load the SATA drivers. What a bummer because I didn't have one lying around.

Anyway, if some of you aren't using the SATA drivers specifically would there be any side effects over a setup that uses the motherboard SATA drivers?

 
Originally posted by: montag451
For some reason, probably royalty reasons, MS doesn't support SATA natively [without drivers] at the moment.
Fdd is the only way i know.
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It's not royalty reasons, it's because SATA is a new technology that debuted after XP's release. Microsoft wrote a generic IDE controller driver that allows it to detect IDE devices during setup, but they do not have a generic SATA controller driver (yet). This will likely NOT be an issue when Longhorn is eventually released.
 
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