[Ham-Computers] RE: XP with SATA Harddrive

[Jim Hill]

I have a question about slip streaming.  I've heard that the actual 
Microsoft XP install CD is needed, and a Dell XP Pro Reinstallation 
CD won't do the job.  Am I correct? If so, will nLite fix this problem?

Jim



At 02:12 PM 1/3/2008, you wrote:
>Happy New Year, Robert (et al),
>
>You didn't run into any issues as you used the <F6> method to 
>install Windows.  Basically, when you press <F6> when first booting 
>from the installation CD, it will (eventually) open an additional 
>panel asking for the appropriate driver.  Had you not pressed <F6>, 
>then you would have ended up at a screen informing you that no hard 
>drives were detected.
>
>The only exception to this is if the SATA controller was set to 
>"legacy" mode (aka "native" mode disabled).  When configured this 
>way, the SATA controller *acts* like a basic IDE controller - 
>Windows will install the generic IDE controller driver during it's 
>initial installation (or a WHQL driver, if supplied with Windows), 
>and it's up to the user to install the appropriate chipset specific 
>driver once Windows' installation is completed.
>
>*** HOWEVER ***
>If Windows is installed with the controller in "Legacy" mode, it's a 
>royal PITA to later convert it to "Native" SATA mode due to a 
>difference in the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL).  "Native" SATA 
>controllers are treated like SCSI controllers and the Windows 
>architecture handles SCSI controllers differently than IDE 
>controllers (in fact, SCSI is truly "native" in the NT architecture 
>and IDE controllers are "add-ons").
>
>In short, choose a mode you want to run in prior to installing 
>Windows - it comes down to convenience ("legacy" SATA) vs 
>performance ("native" SATA).
>
>
>73,
>
>   - Aaron, NN6O
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 12:54 PM
>Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] RE: XP with SATA Harddrive
>
>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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