SATA HD with IDE drivers?

[rgreen]

I recently built a PC and didn't order a floppy drive so I couldn't install SATA drivers when installing XP. Everything works fine I was just wondering if anything bad can happen? Am I confined to IDE speeds etc..?

 

[mica3speedy]

should be fine unless the hard drive has a jumper that needs to be removed to run at 3gb/sec (sata 2)

 

[SNGX1275]

How'd you get it installed to the SATA drive then? Some setups (the only 2 motherboards I've used with sata did) where the SATA doesn't need special drivers for a reason I can't explain properly right now. So basically if you got Windows installed to the drive you don't need to worry about it.

 

[Nodsu]

Some SATA controllers are able to emulate an IDE controller (it's a BIOS setting). As for the speeds, only benchmarking would tell..

People report that some OS/hardware/driver combinations even run significantly faster in ATA emulation mode than native SATA.

 

[matav]

i dont know wat the configuration of your computer is... but your mother board must have sata compatible ports... no other way.
SATA ports are 3/4th an inch of size and simply named as sata 1 sata 2 etc... it's on the mother board.
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and wat relation is there between a floppy drive and a SATA HDD?
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and how come anyone has to install SATA HDD's?
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WAIT! are we speaking about a SATA HDD? i havent heard of SATA drivers.

 

[Tedster]

i dont know wat the configuration of your computer is... but your mother board must have sata compatible ports... no other way.
SATA ports are 3/4th an inch of size and simply named as sata 1 sata 2 etc... it's on the mother board.
.
and wat relation is there between a floppy drive and a SATA HDD?
.
and how come anyone has to install SATA HDD's?
.
WAIT! are we speaking about a SATA HDD? i havent heard of SATA drivers.

please DO NOT piggy back questions. Start a new thread. Please read the rules.

 

[nickc]

i dont know wat the configuration of your computer is... but your mother board must have sata compatible ports... no other way.
SATA ports are 3/4th an inch of size and simply named as sata 1 sata 2 etc... it's on the mother board.
.
and wat relation is there between a floppy drive and a SATA HDD?
.
and how come anyone has to install SATA HDD's?
.
WAIT! are we speaking about a SATA HDD? i havent heard of SATA drivers.

u just said how little u know so read and then answere.