I am just getting into SATA and would like to just plug it into the ASUS board and then partition and format to FAT32 followed by standard CD DOS XP installation using just a bootdisk and FDisk + Format + install from CXP CD. All to an ASUS A8N5X.
My question is:
1) Will this work or is SATA a strange animal that needs a driver and F6 or something 1st?
2) Will I be able to use a boot floppy on a SATA drive?
3) Will I be able to partition and most importantly format to FAT32 as Seatools and Windows only allow NTFS and I need FAT32 or course for DOS installation.
4) Will I then have access to the SATA drive in DOS as C: etc and be able to place the i386 folder etc into the Active partition and get XP started installing?
This probably seems like trivial stuff, but I'm a newbie to SATA if you can believe that and just would like to know about any snags or big issues before I get there. Thanks enormously for any help and/or acknowledgement that the above will work.
BTW, It will just be a single SATA OS drive, dual partition with NO RAID, simple as I can get it and I know to leave the 1.5 Gbps jumper as its plain SATA. Thanks again, webley
Would it be better to install this to a SATA2 capable board as I have a very stable Epox with SATA2?
My question is:
1) Will this work or is SATA a strange animal that needs a driver and F6 or something 1st?
2) Will I be able to use a boot floppy on a SATA drive?
3) Will I be able to partition and most importantly format to FAT32 as Seatools and Windows only allow NTFS and I need FAT32 or course for DOS installation.
4) Will I then have access to the SATA drive in DOS as C: etc and be able to place the i386 folder etc into the Active partition and get XP started installing?
This probably seems like trivial stuff, but I'm a newbie to SATA if you can believe that and just would like to know about any snags or big issues before I get there. Thanks enormously for any help and/or acknowledgement that the above will work.
BTW, It will just be a single SATA OS drive, dual partition with NO RAID, simple as I can get it and I know to leave the 1.5 Gbps jumper as its plain SATA. Thanks again, webley
Would it be better to install this to a SATA2 capable board as I have a very stable Epox with SATA2?