madboy33 Posted April 22, 2004 Report Share Posted April 22, 2004 Hi allWas reading about all the different drives that are around latelyI think that ATA drives are the ones that are coming into the fore, however, my question is this.If you fit an ATA drive then you will need a PCI serial ATA card and have to install the drivers. What happens if you want that drive to be the master and you have to install windows on it? Surely you cant do this as when you format the new ATA drive then the serial PCI card will not be recognized and therefore you cant have it as your master HDD? Or can you?This may sound a silly question, but i am curious about this as was thinking about buying one to have a faster drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimv7 Posted April 22, 2004 Report Share Posted April 22, 2004 I know little about sata drives, but with scsi, you set the bios to boot from scsi and then nominate the drive number to boot from in the scsi bios.When I reload my computer I have to disconnect the ide drive to force the computer to boot from scsi as it still defaults to ide even with scsi as nominated boot.And scsi is much faster than sata or ide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted April 22, 2004 Report Share Posted April 22, 2004 It is possible to install third-party SATA and SCSI drivers during Windows XP setup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted April 22, 2004 Report Share Posted April 22, 2004 This sounds like a course in Mandarin Chinese to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intratech Posted April 22, 2004 Report Share Posted April 22, 2004 I assume that when you say ATA you mean S-ATA. First most motherboards come with S-ATA and P-ATA support. S-ATA does not use master or slave as there can only be one drive on each channel. You can set the boot priority in the BIOS. The drivers are installed at the beginning of windows installation, right at the screen where is says to press F6 to install aditional SCSI drivers, all you'll need is the S-ATA drivers on a floppy and then stick em in after hitting F6 Windows will guide you through the rest of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted April 22, 2004 Report Share Posted April 22, 2004 Intratech, you got it right that's what i was on about Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madboy33 Posted April 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2004 Many thanks Guysthats answered my question Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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