sata ii

Anyone tried using Vista with SATA II drives?

Yes and it works fine.
"Alan Simpson" wrote in message

Anyone tried using Vista with SATA II drives?

Is it on your motherboard or are you using a card? If it's a card, which one?
"JW" wrote in message

Yes and it works fine.
"Alan Simpson" wrote in message Anyone tried using Vista with SATA II drives?

On my Motherboard. Check the Websites or email the support staff of any cards you are considering to see if they have Vista drivers.
"Alan Simpson" wrote in message

Is it on your motherboard or are you using a card? If it's a card, which one?
"JW" wrote in message Yes and it works fine.
"Alan Simpson" wrote in message Anyone tried using Vista with SATA II drives?

Thanks. I was thinking of running it off a card because I'm not ready to build a Vista machine. But I could use another drive. Seems a waste to buy anything other than SATA 300 right now.


"JW" wrote in message

On my Motherboard. Check the Websites or email the support staff of any cards you are considering to see if they have Vista drivers.
"Alan Simpson" wrote in message Is it on your motherboard or are you using a card? If it's a card, which one?
"JW" wrote in message Yes and it works fine.
"Alan Simpson" wrote in message Anyone tried using Vista with SATA II drives?

MS is releasing new Vista drivers being supplied by the device manufacturers every day and making them available via WinUpdate for Vista. Since you could have just could have just as much of a problem with not having a Vista driver for some other device or card in your system as with the disk I suggest you wait till the general release before you consider an upgrade to Vista since by then any current product SATA card should have its Vista driver ready. I can not envision any Sata card manufacturer not haveing a driver ready for the current latest generation cards. I can see them not taking the time to support a card that they haven't been manufacturing for several years. I used a Sata card prior to upgrading my MOBO a year ago to one with onboard Sata 300 support and on board Intel graphics and sound and with a HT CPU and I dual boot it between XP and Vista and only use XP for production at this time due to the current lack of Vista versions of many of my application programs device drivers. "Alan Simpson" wrote in message

Thanks. I was thinking of running it off a card because I'm not ready to build a Vista machine. But I could use another drive. Seems a waste to buy anything other than SATA 300 right now.


"JW" wrote in message On my Motherboard. Check the Websites or email the support staff of any cards you are considering to see if they have Vista drivers.
"Alan Simpson" wrote in message Is it on your motherboard or are you using a card? If it's a card, which one?
"JW" wrote in message Yes and it works fine.
"Alan Simpson" wrote in message Anyone tried using Vista with SATA II drives?

In article , no@thank.you says...

Anyone tried using Vista with SATA II drives?

Yes, I have Vista Beta 2 installed on a Seagate 160GB SATAII 3 GB/sec NCQ

hard drive. It is supported natively on the Intel 945G chipset motherboard I am using. The drive is fast and super quiet. NCQ sounds like a great idea although in actual use it's hard to tell what difference (if any) it makes.

Vista LOVES fast Sata drives. My 300GB Seagate SATA II is rated as a 4 in the Windows Performance testing. If nVidia ever gets the Raid driver working, it should be close to 5. "wgd" wrote in message

In article , no@thank.you says... Anyone tried using Vista with SATA II drives?

Yes, I have Vista Beta 2 installed on a Seagate 160GB SATAII 3 GB/sec NCQ hard drive. It is supported natively on the Intel 945G chipset motherboard I am using. The drive is fast and super quiet. NCQ sounds like a great idea although in actual use it's hard to tell what difference (if any) it makes.

I've tried Vista on both a 300Gb PATA hard drive and a 200Gb SATA hard drive. All I can say is that it loads much faster off of the SATA drive then it ever did off of the PATA drive.

FYI
Expect no sympathy from gigabyte. I have posted this message earlier.
Kind regards
Tony Thijs

message
Last year I bought a Gigabyte SINXP1394 mobo with a Apollo Geforce FX 5500 GPU. I have problems locating drivers for the embedded 3112 Silicon Image SATA controller. According to Silicon Image this is a OEM product where Mobo manufacturers are responsible for driver development. I have a written statement of Gigabyte stating that:,, We will wait until the final release of Vista with driver development and let it depend on market demand whether we will start developing a driver. for the SIL 3112 on the SINXP1394 mobo. Of course that is an effective way of letting people throw away their mobo. Has anyone experience with ASUS, ABIT or other mobo manufacturers concerning the 3x12 series of Silicon Image sata controllers in their embedded form and drivers for Vista? I talked with the largest Dutch consumer organisation and according to them Gigabyte won't get away with this support policy Kind regards, Tony Thijs Oriolus
"JW" wrote in message

MS is releasing new Vista drivers being supplied by the device manufacturers every day and making them available via WinUpdate for Vista. Since you could have just could have just as much of a problem with not having a Vista driver for some other device or card in your system as with the disk I suggest you wait till the general release before you consider an upgrade to Vista since by then any current product SATA card should have its Vista driver ready. I can not envision any Sata card manufacturer not haveing a driver ready for the current latest generation cards. I can see them not taking the time to support a card that they haven't been manufacturing for several years. I used a Sata card prior to upgrading my MOBO a year ago to one with onboard Sata 300 support and on board Intel graphics and sound and with a HT CPU and I dual boot it between XP and Vista and only use XP for production at this time due to the current lack of Vista versions of many of my application programs device drivers. "Alan Simpson" wrote in message Thanks. I was thinking of running it off a card because I'm not ready to build a Vista machine. But I could use another drive. Seems a waste to buy anything other than SATA 300 right now.


"JW" wrote in message On my Motherboard. Check the Websites or email the support staff of any cards you are considering to see if they have Vista drivers.
"Alan Simpson" wrote in message Is it on your motherboard or are you using a card? If it's a card, which one?
"JW" wrote in message Yes and it works fine.
"Alan Simpson" wrote in message Anyone tried using Vista with SATA II drives?