A7N8X Delux SATA questions

dino

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Dec 22, 2003, 4:06:33 PM12/22/03

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IF you read the manual...you would have seen there is a jumper to disable
SATA.

dino

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Dec 22, 2003, 4:07:21 PM12/22/03

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as for the others..yes..so I have read

dino

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Dec 22, 2003, 5:24:08 PM12/22/03

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all the questions you asked...minus the jumpers is quite possible..however
some say it is not worth the grief to set a single SATA drive..if you do and
want it bootable make sure to specify SCSI for boot( I believe) and have no
other HD's plugged in. I haven't done it yet due to waiting for the extra
coin to buy a pair of SATA's. But have been reading all the SATA posts so
far...as for my first reply it sounded snide...was not meant to be.

Doug Ramage

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Dec 23, 2003, 5:39:11 AM12/23/03

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"Dr Teeth" <no_email_h...@tardis.com> wrote in message
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> I have just (yesterday) fitted a A7N8X Deluxe 'board and have some
> questions about the SATA Raid controller.
>
> 1) Is it possible to disable the controller? I do not have any SATA
> disks and do not expect to have any until large capacity 10K revs
> disks are available. I want to do this as on boot up, the PC pauses
> for about 10 seconds whilst a SATA BIOS message appears on screen,
> inviting me to press ctrl+S or F4 to enter the configuration utility.
>

Yes - there is a jumper for this.

> 2) Is it possible to fit a SATA disk not in a RAID setup?
>

Yes. I had one SATA, now two SATAs - non-RAID.

> 3) If it is possible to fit a single SATA disk, is it possible for it
> to be bootable?
>

Yes. You need to install the drivers, either via floppy when installing the
OS. Or, like me, via Device Manager from a PATA drive, then clone the PATA
drive to SATA drive - I used Ghost 2003.

BIOS has to be set to SCSI to boot from SATA.

> TIA and Merry Christmas and happy New year to one and all.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Guy
>

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Courseyauto

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Dec 23, 2003, 7:50:55 AM12/23/03

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> 3) If it is possible to fit a single SATA disk, is it possible for it
> to be bootable?
>

Yes. You need to install the drivers, either via floppy when installing the
OS. Or, like me, via Device Manager from a PATA drive, then clone the PATA
drive to SATA drive - I used Ghost 2003.

BIOS has to be set to SCSI to boot from SATA.

> TIA and Merry Christmas and happy New year to one and all.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Guy
>

Where did you find the SATA driver for windows 98?

Doug Ramage

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Dec 23, 2003, 2:58:53 PM12/23/03

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"Dr Teeth" <no_email_h...@tardis.com> wrote in message

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> On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 10:39:11 -0000, "Doug Ramage"
> <doug-ra...@taxman.uk.com> wrote:
>
> >Yes. I had one SATA, now two SATAs - non-RAID.
>

> Thanks for your reply.
>
> How did you disable the RAID/configure SATA for single drives?
>
> TIA,
>
> Cheers,
>
> Guy
>
It is done automatically. Nothing to disable.

Doug Ramage

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Dec 23, 2003, 3:00:05 PM12/23/03

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"Courseyauto" <cours...@aol.com> wrote in message
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I don't know. I am using XP Pro.

Courseyauto

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Dec 23, 2003, 3:08:27 PM12/23/03

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>
> Where did you find the SATA driver for windows 98?

I don't know. I am using XP Pro.
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I tried installing 98 on a SATA drive on the ICH5 intel SATA controller and
and it wont finish,it wont reboot. XP installs using the raid driver for Xp
but dont have one for 98.
usually with 98 and ME you install the raid drivers after the OS is installed
but in this case it wont finish installing.
DOUG