SATA question

VB6

VB6

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Just bought a Motherboard and a normal SATA drive (not SATAII).

As you can probably tell, i'm a complete noob when it comes to SATA (been stuck in the Dark Ages with PATA)

My motherboard has 4 SATAII sockets on the board but i'm led to believe you can connect a normal SATA drive to them (or so it says in the manual).

Fine, no problems there then.

However, there are only SATAII drivers on the CD?

Will Windows XP install on it without the need to install thrid party drivers (at the press F6 stage) or have i got to source some third party drivers for my Intel ICH7 Southbridge from somewhere?

:confused:
 
VB6 said:
Just bought a Motherboard and a normal SATA drive (not SATAII).

As you can probably tell, i'm a complete noob when it comes to SATA (been stuck in the Dark Ages with PATA)

My motherboard has 4 SATAII sockets on the board but i'm led to believe you can connect a normal SATA drive to them (or so it says in the manual).

Fine, no problems there then.

However, there are only SATAII drivers on the CD?

Will Windows XP install on it without the need to install thrid party drivers (at the press F6 stage) or have i got to source some third party drivers for my Intel ICH7 Southbridge from somewhere?

:confused:
Click to expand...

Download this: http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=2101

Install it, reboot, voila!
 
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Firstly the drivers are for the controller, not for the drives so SATA II controller = SATA II drivers.

Whether you need them or not is another story. I think most boards with the ICH7 will allow you to use it in a single drive mode which does not need RAID drivers installed. If you can there will be an option in the BIOS somewhere - chipset features or on board peripherals bit, I forget which.
 
thanks guys.

I knew the driver was for the chipset and not the drive.

I was confused as to whether i could clean install windows on a normal SATA drive without the need for a chipset driver or whether i should use the SATAII chipset drivers supplied on the CD (as there are no SATA chipset drivers supplied).

The Motherboard is an ASRock Conroe945G-DVI

I guess i'll bodge through it next week when i get my CPU...

:D
 
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Cos nelle the elephant said so (cos afaik ich7 supports pata emulation mode so the OS will see your SATA drives as IDE, negating need for F6 drivers at install screen).
 
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