Installing sata?

Killajaz · 12 Jan 2006 at 22:08

hello!

I just got myself a nice WD 250gb 16mb SATA.
however, I have no clue how to make it work.
Using an ABIT NF7-s rev2. I have an IDE as master with Xp on it.
I wish to get the sata going, give it two partitions and then reboot and install XP on the smaller partition, and then use it as boot and the move my data from the IDE and then clean the IDE...

However, the SATA doesnt show up in bios. SATA is enabled in the BIOS.
The raid utility after the BIOS splash screen does detect the SATA, but thats it.

what do I need to do?

Killajaz · 13 Jan 2006 at 08:31

So is there no one in here who had similar problems? :/

I Found out the SiS controller the NF2 uses has problems with SATA2 and isn't really backwards compatible.
WD claim a solution would be locking the drive to 150mb/s using a jumper on the back of the hd, however this didnt help. Next solution would be buying a SATA2 controller...

Any thoughts, help or ideas?

Killajaz · 13 Jan 2006 at 17:56

pfffffffffft!

Killajaz · 14 Jan 2006 at 14:50

Using the Black Mantaray d26 bios.
Will try the method you described.

thanks

Killajaz · 15 Jan 2006 at 21:15

Hmz having problems finding a SATA boot disk on the net.

A floppy came with the mobo "sata drivers", dunno if its a boot disk tho. Guess I will have to try