Installing SATA HD

[BUB 209]

Here I go again with my rant about doing something that's supposed to
be easy but turns out to be bristling with glitches. Okay -
I got the Raptor 36 GB drive at the lowest price possible on the internet,
and it came with no software. OK, I figured, software must not be
necessary, XP will auto-detect it.
I installed it using the onboard port in my ASUS P4PE 2-year-old
motherboard and booted up. There were no new hardware detected
messages and drivers were not asked for, but it was listed and was
"working properly" in device manager. SATA was enabled in setup.
When I booted to the XP disc, it asked for drivers for the Raptor,
which I don't have. Western Digital only seemed to have drivers for
a PCI card SATA port, so I guess my next move will be to call their
support number.

[Frank Kemper]

bub209@aol.com (BUB 209) haute in die Tasten:
Here I go again with my rant about doing something that's supposed to be easy but turns out to be bristling with glitches. Okay - I got the Raptor 36 GB drive at the lowest price possible on the internet, and it came with no software. OK, I figured, software must not be necessary, XP will auto-detect it.

I currently also build up a PC with a SATA Disc. I also have an Asus
Board, and I found out, tat the SATA controller seems to be a RAID
controller, so it may be neessary to install the RAID controller driver,
which was provided with the board. My SATA disc (Samsung) runs perfectly,
however I can't boot from it.

Frank

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[BUB 209]

> the SATA controller seems to be a RAIDcontroller, so it may be neessary to install the RAID controller driver,which was provided with the board

I've gotten that far. Now, with the XP
disc in and floppy drivers loaded, I get
a blue screen about a problem in
setupdd.sys, page_fault_in_nonpaged_
area. Western Digital has good free
tech support, so I'll call them again,
Asus does not. Just a matter of trying
everything, I guess.

[Anonymous Joe]

"BUB 209" <bub209@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20040531083318.00136.00000109@mb-m22.aol.com... Here I go again with my rant about doing something that's supposed to be easy but turns out to be bristling with glitches. Okay - I got the Raptor 36 GB drive at the lowest price possible on the internet, and it came with no software. OK, I figured, software must not be necessary, XP will auto-detect it. I installed it using the onboard port in my ASUS P4PE 2-year-old motherboard and booted up. There were no new hardware detected messages and drivers were not asked for, but it was listed and was "working properly" in device manager. SATA was enabled in setup. When I booted to the XP disc, it asked for drivers for the Raptor, which I don't have. Western Digital only seemed to have drivers for a PCI card SATA port, so I guess my next move will be to call their support number.

Two things. One, I never buy from the cheapest place, usually the 3rd
cheapest :) I'm assuming you purchased it OEM and not retail package.

I have used a Maxtor 160GB SATA that was purchased OEM from newegg.com and
used it on a new Socket A board, using an nForce2 400 and a Silion Images
SATA chip. Windows 2000 was used.

It was extremly easy and just like an IDE set up, or rather, a hardware RAID
setup, since you had to install the SATA controller's drivers during install
or else there aren't any drives to install it to. For someone who has an
IDE drive as the boot and it's setup with everything it's quite easy.

Actually, due to some RAM errors, the PC was brought back to me (I built it
for a friend) and I, for one reason or another, was going to reinstall
Windows on it. Obviously, with RAM errors, that didn't help, but I didn't
know about the RAM errors at the time. Firstly, however, I needed to backup
the stuff he had. This is rather easy since we have the same motherboard,
so all I needed to do was plugin the SATA drive and copy stuff over to my
RAID 0 IDE array (240GB....far greater than his 160GB). It was flawless,
all I had to do was enable the SATA controller in BIOS, ensure it was set to
boot from the IDE RAID controller, and let Windows ask me for the SATA
drivers. It found the controller as new hardware.

Basically, in all this, what I mean to get at is that SATA hard drives are
like IDE hard drives and SCSI hard drives. You don't need a driver for a
hard disk. That's like a driver for a 1.44MB floppy drive. You only need a
driver for the controller. Even the standard 2 channel IDE ports given on
every board have drivers. It's just they're part of the chipset so it's not
ever an issue. You'll find that you can get newer drivers most of the time,
however, if you want/need it. It's just that there aren't drivers provided
by Microsoft for all the different RAID, SCSI, and SATA controllers.

You should find the error is because of the controller driver, not the hard
drive. AFAIK, WD only provides some diag tools on the disk.