At 08:15 AM 3/25/2006, Chuck Andrews typed:
With my Asus motherboards I have never been given a prompt to
install SATA drivers and I use SATA hard drives exclusively now. Am
I missing something important? I have always simply hooked up the
SATA power and data cables and everything ran fine.
In my case it was SATA Raid & almost all Raids need special drivers.
I had been using SCSI drives long before SATA & was always req'd to
use the manufacturers disk on boot up of the installation routine.
In the early days of USB 2.0 you had to install drivers for it, or
it would run as USB 1.1. Those drivers were on the CD furnished with
the motherboard. Now they are in either SP 1 or surely in SP 2 for Windows XP.
It's USB 2.0 that still comes on mombo CDs because it was NOT part of
the original XP like 1394 was but now it's part of Sp2.
I hope I have not been depriving the computers I have built of
performance by not installing SATA drivers.
You should be checking with the chip makers websites to see if they
have newer drivers. All most all manufacturers have drivers ready for
downloading before MSFT does because they haven't passed MSFT
Hardware Compatibility checking as of yet which IMHO means almost
nothing anyway as most manufacturers just tell you to bypass the
warning that pops up when installing new hardware drivers from within Windows.
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Wayne D. Johnson
Ashland, OH, USA 44805
<http://www.wavijo.com>
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