Serial-ATA and ide question.

**retro** · 10-06-2005,08:40 AM

Im about to put a S-ATA hardrive into a computer witch also have a ide hd with the os (xp) on.
does the ata disk become a slave automaticly?
is this a bios setup thing?

does the S-ata drive need to have some drivers installed to work?

**dick_onion53** · 10-06-2005,12:49 PM

sata drives dont need seperate drivers as far as I know, however, your mobo needs drivers for teh sata controller. I dont think there really is a slave and master for serial ata (since there is only one device per cable). I've never installed a sata hdd but I think that stuff should be right...

**yahooadam** · 10-06-2005,01:01 PM

If ure mobo has SATA headers on it then u will need to find out whether its on a raid chip or just sata ports

Depends on ure mobo

There are no jumpers with SATA as its 1 drive per cable (and i dont think it matters with sata2)

In your bootup list you will prolly need somthing like
Floppy
CD
Sata / Other boot device

Then it will boot off ure sata drive b4 ure ata

Also depending if u have ure drive on a raid card on not, your might need to put in a floppy and get the drivers on during windows install (press f6 at the blue screen)
If your adding sata to a previous version of windows then theres no problem

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