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N00b: RE Sata drive performance

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gregjunior

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I am piecing together a new build tonight:
Specs:
Intel 6300
Asus p5b
Western Digital Caviar 250 Sata drive

My question is that I cannot determine the process of setting this up.
How can I set this up so that I can use just the HD set as Sata vs IDE?
I hear something about loading sata drivers by hitting f6 before loading Windows XP.
My scenario is that I don't care about loading another hard drive in the future and just want to utilize the drive as SATA to take advantage of quicker access speeds.
Do I need to worry about loading sata drivers, etc before loading Windows XP Home if I do not intend on using RAID in the future?

Also, on a unrelated note do I need to set up the IDE DVD-ROM as the master if I have the hard drive set as master? I get confused by if I need to specify master vs slave if they are different connections (ie ide vs sata)

Any help you can give me I would appreciate it.
 
It all depends on the MoBo if you need to use F6 to load the SATA drives before Windozes.
Older MoBo's wouldn't see the SATA drives without it, most new ones will.
My normal mode is to build a minimum setup first without any drives.
Attach a floppy or cd drive and run 3 loops of Memtest first.
Then attach first hard drive and try and load Windozes.
First try don't use F6 and see if it finds the hard drive.
If it finds the drive then good, if not dig out a working floppy if needed and use F6 to load the drivers.
Add any other dives/ hardware as needed, load drivers, etc, etc.

Its easier to trouble shoot problems that way.

As for the CD master/slave question.
As its the only drive on the cable set it to master.
Less chance of a silly conflict that way.

Luck ............. :D
 
The P5B has the SATA controller on the motherboard, so you should just have to plug the drive into the SATA sockets on the MB and go into the BIOS and set that drive as the boot drive. SATA drives do not have any master/slave settings - each is on a separate cable. I don't think you'll need drivers - Windows should see it as a regular drive (I could be wrong in this case and will appreciate correction - my old Dell didn't need drivers when I installed a SATA card).

The DVD on an IDE controller is completely separate from the SATA drive, so there is no master/slave thing to worry about - you can set it to Master or to Cable Select. If you add another DVD or CD drive with IDE, then you'd have to make sure the two are not both set to master. I've always used cable select since they sorted out the drive compatibility problems a long time ago.
 
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