SATA Hard-drives

[moddedcomputers]

Does anyone have any experience with installing SATA hard-drives. Are drivers installed like SCSI drive, at the pause givin by Windows 2000/XP? This one has the fastest seek time I could find in this price range.
10,000 RPM rotational disk speed
5.2 ms average data seek time
I ordered this and I'm ready to see how fast i can push this rig. My new ASUS board A7N8X has SATA and I've decided to give it a whirl. Western Digital Enterprise Serial ATA Hard Drive WD Raptor 36.7 GB 10,000 RPM .
:coffee


~Mike~
www.moddedcomputers.com

[Sky Rookie]

Originally posted by moddedcomputers
Does anyone have any experience with installing SATA hard-drives.

I'll post when I get mine... I ordered two. Should have them sometime this week.

[Marvin]

yes they are the fastest non SCSI drives in the market. I bought ine last month, but i didnt manage to bought another for a raid 0 volume.
more info here :
http://3dgameman.com/forums/showthre...ht=raptor+raid

[wazman]

Originally posted by moddedcomputers
Does anyone have any experience with installing SATA hard-drives. Are drivers installed like SCSI drive, at the pause givin by Windows 2000/XP? This one has the fastest seek time I could find in this price range.
10,000 RPM rotational disk speed
5.2 ms average data seek time
I ordered this and I'm ready to see how fast i can push this rig. My new ASUS board A7N8X has SATA and I've decided to give it a whirl. Western Digital Enterprise Serial ATA Hard Drive WD Raptor 36.7 GB 10,000 RPM .
:coffee


~Mike~
www.moddedcomputers.com

I believe they are, but I'm not completely sure... If you're installing into a RAID array, then I think the procedure is the same...

Although I did read somewhere that somebody had to hook up a parallel ATA drive, install the SATA drivers, and then reboot so that the drive was recognized... I don't know if that's true or not...

I'll be interested to know the answer to that as well... In case I do something like this in a future upgrade.

[Stingerman]

If you are using the new Raptor as your boot drive then Yes when you go to install Windows Xp you will need to hit F6 and have a disk ready with the drivers. Now that disk is usually given with either the motherboard or any type of controller card that supports SATA.

Your best bet is to get the latest drivers and have them ready on the floppy, and then you can run the install for XP and wait for it to ask for the disk. (by default Windows XP even with SP1a doesn't include support for SATA).

[Teddray]

when I went to install my OS on dual raptors on my a7n8x I noticed that the required driver disk it said I was supposed to use was missing.

If you go to the asus driver cd and go to the sata driver folder, copy all the files in that folder other than the gui folder and the pdf file and you have your own custom made raid driver disk =o They don't mention that anywhere in the help files or manual but it works.

Just saying this to save you a half hour to an hour of forum cruising or trial and error if your disk is missing like mine was.

[moddedcomputers]

Windows XP was looking for a file oemtxt setup file. The drivers from ASUS would not load. I goti nto a SATA screen and it would not make disks?



I made a page for the stuff I'm dealling with on my site.
www.moddedcomputers.com
~Mike~

[Sky Rookie]

Originally posted by moddedcomputers
Windows XP was looking for a file oemtxt setup file. The drivers from ASUS would not load. I goti nto a SATA screen and it would not make disks?
I made a page for the stuff I'm dealling with on my site.
www.moddedcomputers.com
~Mike~

Go the chip maker's website, they are there. I just downloaded last night my self for this problem.

http://www.siimage.com

Good Luck!

[moddedcomputers]

THANK YOU
I'm formatting it right now.
of course now i have to re-register XP with those fools at Microsoft. i had installed XP on a 133 drive I had to try and get at my new drive from Windows. I notice they no track installs with the CD-Key. They key given with the disk is only good for one install. Then you must get a new install key!

Oh well, at least I actually bought this disk.

~mike~
www.moddedcomputers.com

[efernandez_98]