[KLUG Members] testing SATA drive

[Andrew Eidson]

Actually XP pro does not require that for SATA on most systems.. Only if you
want RAID enabled. If you only have 1 disk and don't care for RAID it will
install to an SATA drive without any extra drivers ( atleast that is what
happened on my system )  

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[mailto:members-bounces at kalamazoolinux.org] On Behalf Of Eric Beversluis
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 7:20 AM
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Subject: Re: [KLUG Members] testing SATA drive

Is this an XP box?
As I recall, when XP installs, there's a prompt for special steps to install
RAID and SATA drivers. So maybe the OS rather than the BIOS recognizes SATA?
If so, part or all of XP might need to be reinstalled?
(Guessing)

On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 15:45 -0500, bill wrote:
> My neighbor brought over a dead computer recently.  Apparently they 
> had lots of hacking problems, removed them all (so they say) and then, 
> --surprise! -- the computer no longer would boot.
> 
> A quick look shows the BIOS no longer recognizes the HD.  The drive is 
> connected o.k. and spins up.  I couldn't find any place to put in the 
> HD parameters manually.
> 
> The drive is Serial ATA and I don't have any other boxes that have 
> that interface to test whether it is the drive or the computer.  Any
ideas?
> 
> kind regards,
> 
> bill
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