What are SATA connectors for?

[LoneStrider]

i noticed on my new motherboard and my new PSU that they had SATA connectors on them. what are they for?

[HD0087]

They are mostly used in HD's instead of IDE cables now days. (Allot faster data transfer than IDE)
But there is some CD/DVD Drivers that uses them too.

[Fuelee]

And theyre a damn pain in the ass driver wise to install when doing a format and installing xp. I gotta have a floppy that came with my Abit AV8 Mobo to install my Seagate SATA drive cause XP wont recognise it when installing..so you gotta hit f6 real quick when the xp install starts to install the drivers from the floppy.

I'll say one thing about SATA drives, they are damn quick when defragmenting. Mines an 80gb and i usally always have it half full and it only takes 10-15mins to defrag.

[HD0087]

Well I never had that problem??

[Fuelee]

Which problem HD? What am i doing wrong?

[LoneStrider]

mh, weird, i got SATA connectors on my PSU, and on my motherboard. what will happen if i connect the SATAs from my PSU to my MOBO?

[HD0087]

That you need to install the S-ata drivers manually. :Oo:
I have Xp home SP2, Ga_8INXP mobo and they install automatically.
AND LS. BOOOM!

[Fuelee]

My XP is the SP2 upgrade as well. So XP should be detecting my SATA drive when the install starts? Any idea how i fix this so i dont need the floppy?

[HD0087]

Sorry i donno..

[LoneStrider]

Originally posted by HD0087@Aug 6 2005, 02:44 PM
That you need to install the S-ata drivers manually. :Oo:
I have Xp home SP2, Ga_8INXP mobo and they install automatically.
AND LS. BOOOM!

you sure?


thanks for pointing that out, i might'ive tried it.