Quick question about installing a SATA drive

[Xernex]

Hey I just got myself a Raptor and so did a mate. He got his before mine and said something about having to install drivers for his SATA drive at the winxp prep screen when he went for a fresh install. Said he had to hit f6 and had his drivers on a floppy. Now I?m about to install mine but I find this strange as I have never read anywhere saying you had to install SATA drivers (both our mobos have built in SATA we aren?t using adapters). The CD that came with my board doesn?t even say anything about SATA drivers (ASUS P4PE dlx). So yeah just wanted to know is there something I?m missing? Or is it just plug the Raptor into the SATA port and that?s it I should forgot what my friend was saying?

Thanks.

 

[FreshPrince]

F6 is if you have SCSI or RAID drivers or the install won't even see your drive.

so, no, you don't need a driver disk in your case.

hope this helps.

-FP

 

[Xernex]

Thanks thats what i thought f6 was for. Dunno wtf he was doing then lol.

 

[FreshPrince]

Well, if he had gotten two raptors and wanted to run RAID using the onboard SATA RAID controller...then yes, he will need to use the F6 + driver disk option

 

[seepy83]

on my Asus A7N8X Deluxe you do need to make a floppy disk with the SATA controllers on it. and you do press f6 when the windows install asks for third party scsi/raid adapter. and no, i am not running a SATA RAID scheme...just 1 single SATA drive.

check asus's website for the SATA drivers for your board...they should have them. then put em on a floppy disk. i cant remember exactly what i did...took me a couple minutes trying to get the right files on my motherboard drivers cd.