SATA Drivers - Floppy

[Munson]

With modern bang up to date mobos, do you still need to have a floppy to install the SATA drivers?

 

[172.com]

*Giggles* He said 'need to have a floppy'.

IIRC, I installed the mobo drivers from the CD, which I believe included the SATA drivers. However, my memory is terrible so that may not have been the case.

 

[biojo]

yep, if its the only drive in pc, its a arse cos most ppl dont use floppy drives now but yes it is the only way the get xp to install by having the SATA drivers on floppy


if yer using a sata drive for a extra drive then u can install em off cd or web ,

 

[172.com]

I installed XP MCE and didn't use any floppies. I'm certain of that, 'cause my new machine doesn't have a floppy drive.

 

[Munson]

Bollox. I guess I will need to get a floppy prior to the build then. I used a SATA drive in TheBeast but I remember telling the BIOS to configure it as an IDE drive. I dont really want to do that with TheBeast2.

 

[172.com]

What OS are you installing Mr. Munson? If it's XP read my above post.

 

[Munson]

Xp

 

[172.com]

We keep posting at the same time, read post #4.

 

[Munson]

What OS are you installing Mr. Munson? If it's XP read my above post.

Thats fine if you're adding another drive. If you intend to a do a virgin install onto a SATA drive, it's a different matter.

 

[Munson]

We keep posting at the same time, read post #4.

No, everyone keeps editing their posts

 

[172.com]

We posted again at the same time!! Grrrrr. LOL. Mine was a virgin install - brand new system, only one hard drive.

 

[Munson]

SATA or PATA?

 

[172.com]

No, everyone keeps editing their posts

I do that a lot, my fingers work faster than my brain.

This thread has so many sexual conotations; 'floppy', 'hard', 'virgin', 'fingers'

 

[wozzaa]

Some of them need drivers some dont. Silicon image controllers need drivers. Nvidias raid sata controller usually does not need drivers.

 

[172.com]

SATA
http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=5140&category_id=112&manufacturer_id=0

 

[Evil Ally]

If the SATA controller is native to the chipset on the motherboard then you won't need drivers. If it's a 3rd party add in integrated onto the board, then you will (e.g. Silicon Image).

 

[Munson]

Ah well I'm sure I'll manage to get Windows on it even without a floppy. I find it hard to get a floppy these days. Even if I have to use it as an IDE drive for now. I'll be changing to Vista soon enough

 

[Munson]

The mobo is;

Asus M2N32-SLi-DLX nForce 590 SLi (Socket AM2)

The drive is a Seagate 200GB SATA that I've had for ages.

 

[Evil Ally]

You'll be fine m8. That board has native sata as well as a silicon image chip. Just make sure you don't use the silicon image controller and the XP install will see the drive fine.

 

[Munson]

Sweet! Thanks for all the help from you guys. Appreciated

 

[Toypop]

I have a mobo native controller and a third party one on my PC and had to use the floppy drive for both to load drivers to get Windows XP installed!

Unbelievable, so I'm glad I bothered sticking an old floppy drive in my PC because I nearly didn't bother.

Norton Ghost (when booting from the ghost disk into the restore environment) wouldn't pick the drive up when I used the third party controller regardless of whether I loaded drivers or not. Curiously it detected the drive when I connected to the native controller and I didn't install any drivers. Weird!

Its a bit crap in this day and age to be honest.