[Ham-Computers] RE: XP with SATA Harddrive

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

I'm a little puzzled by all of this.  We're still running W2K here but will 
eventually have to switch to XP I suppose.  I assume that if XP lacks support 
for SATA, so does W2K.  But I had to replace (actually, I didn't have to but 
didn't discover why the board had started randomly rebooting until after the 
fact) the system board in our main machine a few months ago.  And ended up with 
an Intel board with six SATA connectors and on-board RAID capability.  So I 
replaced all the drives as well.  

I don't recall having any problems in bringing the new system up, with two 
RAID and two non-RAID drives.    The drives were configured in BIOS Setup and 
then the driver loaded by pressing F6 when I got to the SCSI driver prompt 
during OS installation.  Is this (nLite, etc.) all necessary because the machine is 
a Compaq?

Robert Downs - Houston
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