Did I screw up ?

[Gengi]

Well I got the new mobo, AS8 from Abit, a spangly P4 540 (3.2 gig jobbie) an XFX 6800gt, a bloody big case and a 430 w PSU. I had a nice new copy of XP and following jontys' advice had already burned SP" to a cd. I put it all together iwth a gig of ram and a SATA hard disk.
Now my hard disk appears as an IDE drive, not sure if I fucked up by not sticking in the floppy when it said something about RAID or SCSI when I loaded XP, there was a floppy with the mobo with various SATA drivers on it.
Do I have to repair XP and will that kill anything I have done so far ?

Later

 

[Krazeh]

Well it should be showing up as an IDE driver cos thats what it is, just has a different interface to a PATA drive

 

[Ardrias]

Some motherboards do emulation for SATA drives which means you dont have to bother with raid drivers etc. Probably why it shows up as IDE instead of SCSI in device manager.

 

[Tom]

My SATA drive shows in device manager as a SCSI device.

 

[Ch3tan]

My sata drive shows as a IDE as well.

 

[SawTooTH]

Mine says '"sil RAID 0 set 0 SCSI DISK Device"

So similar to Toms

Sounds like you did the right thing

 

[Gengi]

Thanks for the replies people, The box is working well. I tried X2 the threat which came free with one of the gfx cards, it looked lovely. It should be even lovelier when ebuyer get there finger out and send me my RMA number so I can return the TFT and get the right one

Later

p.s. anyone know where to get a hold of a manual for X2 I keep crashing into things and firing off weapons at innappropriate times

 

[Xavier]

Those of you using AthlonXP motherboards such as the A7N8X deluxe have a silicon image sil3112 RAID controller which as an add in storage device will register in teh SCSI adapters.


Anyone using i875, i865, i915 or i925 motherboards have native RAID in their ICH5/6 chips which as standard will behave like a normal IDE device, which is by far the easiest way to do it. You can change the compatibility mode to register the SATA as an add-in storage controller, but there's no performance difference and to be honest, no point.

Xav