Install W2k from a Sata CD drive

[pointertovoid]

Hello you all!

I plan to have a Sata CD/DVD drive on my new config. I've already seen that the W2k installation disk has no difficulties with Sata HDD on this mobo.

Has anybody seen worries related with the Dvd drive interface in this case?

Thanks!

[jaclaz]

Hello you all!

I plan to have a Sata CD/DVD drive on my new config. I've already seen that the W2k installation disk has no difficulties with Sata HDD on this mobo.

Has anybody seen worries related with the Dvd drive interface in this case?

Thanks!

Yes.

http://homepages.tesco.net/J.deBoynePollar...no-answers.html

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&...-8&oe=utf-8

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums...3f-4980c2f82151

jaclaz

[pointertovoid]

Ciao Jaclaz!

Hmmm, so it's not completely obvious. My Bios has an Ide compatibility mode for the Ich10r (with measured full Sata2 performance including Ncq) which I can use with W2k if not going Raid nor Ahci, so in this case chances are with me.

I'm discovering slowly (1 tower, 1 power supply etc for 2 computers, the other must operate every day = bad idea) my new hardware. I have a secondary Sata2 +Pata controller from JMicron on the Mobo, this one would offer official W2k drivers for Raid and Ahci, but as it looks now, I lose the Pata port if using Raid or Ahci modes on the Sata ports of this controller.

So several incompatibilities are messing up here. It could be that I need a Sata Dvd drive to use the Ahci features (or Raid, but performance is probably bad with JMicron) with W2k on this mobo.

Grazie!

Edited June 27, 2009 by pointertovoid

[pointertovoid]

And I've had no worries.

Sata Dvd burner is Sony's AD-5200S connected to an ich10r, mobo is Ga-ep45-ud3r with Bios F4. OS are W2k heavily HfSlipped to December 2007 as well as Xp with integral Sp2.

These combinations worked:

- Bios in P-Ata compatibility mode, W2k with no F6 driver; boots abnormally slowly;

- Bios in S-Ata Ahci mode, W2k with BlackWingCat's Ahci/Raid driver used in F6 mode; boots much faster;

- Bios in S-Ata Ahci mode, Xp with Intel's iastor v8.7 used in F6 mode; boots very fast.

[jaclaz]

It would be nice if you could share a link to the "BlackWingCat's Ahci/Raid driver" you used.

His site is in Japanese:

http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/

and it's not really "immediate" to find something on it.

OT, but FYI, while I was looking for the drivers, completely failing to find them, unless you were talking about these ones:

http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/archives/339894.html

http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/archives/813816.html

I found this one:

http://209.85.129.132/translate_c?&ie=...ves/864112.html

Which seems to me a pretty straightforward way to get quicly some info on unknown devices.

jaclaz

Edited September 21, 2009 by jaclaz

[pointertovoid]

Ciao Jaclaz!

Hum, I see what you mean... And unfortunately, I did keep notice of all adresses for downloads, but BlackWingCat's site has moved meanwhile.

This page looks like the one I used:

http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/archives/813816.html

even better, it already was called 813816 then.

In this page, ダウンロードlinks to http://files.me.com/theblackcat/y53fv3 which proposes a file of nearly the size I downloaded, corresponding to Intel's v7.6.0.1011. Since 2009年04月17日 it may have changed on 8th Sep, 2009: Fix add Intel® ICH9M-E/M SATA AHCI Controller

If you download it (20MB, I didn't do it again) it shall look like a usual Intel driver, except that for instance the contained Winall\Driver\IaStor.sys has an invalid signature (logically enough) and an added CustomizerCopyright. I checked (for a previous version) that it calls only entries available from W2k, as opposed to what Intel's original does. Well done!

Maybe BWC passes by and tells us more...

Did you notice? Internet addresses will be allowed to contain non-Latin letters. This will certainly make life much easier for Japanese people.