To install SATA Drive..after pressing F6 which file do I need?

[jyp]

I see there are several in CD that came with the MB.

Withing Promise there's
378ATA
Win XP

378Raid
Win XP

What's the difference between ATA and Raid? Which one do I use?
I hae 2 sata drives that I want to use independently and not raid.

Help...

 

[CalvinHobbes]

Which motherboard do you have?

 

[jyp]

I have ASUS A8V Deluxe rev2.0

 

[CalvinHobbes]

That boards has RAID for both the SATA and IDE channels. You should be able to just load the regular ATA drivers, assuming those are also for the SATA controller.

 

[jyp]

I don't know if Fasttrack 378 Raid driver is for only if you are going to have Raid. Is it?

 

[WebDude]

Originally posted by: jyp
I see there are several in CD that came with the MB.

Withing Promise there's
378ATA
Win XP

378Raid
Win XP

What's the difference between ATA and Raid? Which one do I use?
I hae 2 sata drives that I want to use independently and not raid.

Help...

I assume you mean the floppy that came with the MB, since windows can't access a CD for additional drivers during the install.

If you're running the Promise378 as a pure sata/ata controller, give it the 378ata drivers. If you're running the 378 as a raid controller, give it the raid drivers. From your description you're not running raid, so give it the 378ata drivers.

And actually, you can give it both drivers, and XP install will use the appropriate driver (I just did that on a MSI mb with the Promise378 onboard controller. The windows install just uses the drivers that work. If you gave it the wrong drivers, XP install would not be able to find any drive to install on, and it would tell you that.)

 

[Hyperlite]

yeah...you have to use a floppy, so i sure hope one came with the mobo. if not, you will have to use another comp to move the drivers from the CD to a floppy. Once you have done that, go back into the windows setup, press F6, and then load the drivers off the floppy. you can load as many of them as you want, Windows will choose the one it needs. For my NF7-S, all my drivers were "raid." i wasn't sure which driver to use, so i just loaded all the Windows XP drivers and i guess the setup chose the correct one.