SATA Support On Vista

[cfaice]

Hi all,

Currently with XP, if you have 3rd party drivers that need to be installed on the initial installation, you are required to have them on Floppy.

Fair enough this is not a major problem, but considering I don?t use the floppy disk drive for any thing other than the above, it can be considered an unnecessary expense!

Does anyone know if Windows Vista will accept 3rd party drives on CD instead of floppy in the future?

Regards,

Craig

[golazo]

do you mean booting from sata? because on mine i don't need any drivers for my sata hd's because i use a pata as a master

[Ironman273]

I use a SATA as primary and have had no problems doing a clean install of XP onto it.

There is a petition going around somewhere for Microsoft to include other sources for the boot-up drivers, not only CDs but also Flashdrives.

[MrCobra]

My motherboard as most these days support SATA natively. XP & even my DOS 7.1 boot CD sees my raptor drives without any special drivers loaded.

[Raa]

If you have a SATA drive on a standard southbridge controller, most bioses will auto set the mode of the controller (compatibility for dos, or enhanced for windows)

If you use a SATA raid controller, like a Silicon Image etc, then you'll need a driver to install it onto - Whether its in raid mode or ide mode doesnt matter, as these are still counted as "scsi" controllers...

Here's hoping Vista can support SATA natively using a generic driver and/or allow drivers to be used from any other source, not just floppy!

[Koolslacker]

I know what you mean. I am in same condition. It takes me longer to find a floppy than to install windows. I hate that. I really hope they take care of this problem.

[Computer Guru]

Not only that, floppies are prone to failure within minutes of opening the package... what did we invent dvd's for?

the best invention is the flah drive: tis the fastest, and hte most portable, adn the easiest ot use

[Jason]

Hi all,

Currently with XP, if you have 3rd party drivers that need to be installed on the initial installation, you are required to have them on Floppy.

Fair enough this is not a major problem, but considering I don?t use the floppy disk drive for any thing other than the above, it can be considered an unnecessary expense!

Does anyone know if Windows Vista will accept 3rd party drives on CD instead of floppy in the future?

Regards,

Craig

586257923[/snapback]

With Intel you don't need extra drivers added on boot up.

[Angel Blue01]

They have better.

With my abit board Windows doesn't recgonize the SATA hard drive without a driver. Even my manufacter's driver didn't work. I had to use another driver.

They really should fix the bug that if you use an unattended setup and try to press F6 to load a SATA driver setup crashes, even in XP64.

[amrinders87]

Hi all,

Currently with XP, if you have 3rd party drivers that need to be installed on the initial installation, you are required to have them on Floppy.

Fair enough this is not a major problem, but considering I don?t use the floppy disk drive for any thing other than the above, it can be considered an unnecessary expense!

Does anyone know if Windows Vista will accept 3rd party drives on CD instead of floppy in the future?

Regards,

Craig

586257923[/snapback]

You can slipstream the drivers to your XP disc.

As far as Vista, acceptiong 3rd party drivers on CD, I think we will have to wait and see. But it would be nice.:D:D

[CoLdFuSi0n]

i hope they do add support for controllers cause i don't have a floppy drive in my computer, and i have to ghost my xp, just to use it. I've tryed guides to slipstream it on to a xp cd but they have never worked

[Max Veteran]

With Intel you don't need extra drivers added on boot up.

586258128[/snapback]

Yup you do. I have an Intel processor/chipset. Still needs the SI drivers. Like another guy said above, if its not on the southbridge then say hello to your floppy disks.

[jasondefaoite]

You can slipstream the drivers to your XP disc.

Ya but the problem is that Windows EXPECTS to see the drivers on a floppy (after you press F6), so having them burnt to the install CD won't work.

[STanger]

i hope they do add support for controllers cause i don't have a floppy drive in my computer, and  i have to ghost my xp, just to use it. I've tryed guides to slipstream it on to a xp cd but they have never worked

586260280[/snapback]

have you tried nLite?

http://www.nliteos.com

it does a really good job at integrating drivers

it'll integrate both PnP and textmode(which are sata/raid drivers) style drivers

[amrinders87]

with vista you can use usb keys for driver load during setup. no more floppies needed.

586265356[/snapback]

Nice! :D

[trance]

with vista you can use usb keys for driver load during setup. no more floppies needed.

[raskren]

Yes, textmode drivers can be added to your CD or other installation source. It is fairly easy and Windows Setup doesn't know the difference.

Things will be different in Longhorn because everything will be packaged into WIM files.

[Hankyone]

with vista you can use usb keys for driver load during setup. no more floppies needed.

586265356[/snapback]

source? but that can be true since the vista setup will be in WinPE

[trance]

Trust me... just wait and see.