True, you could call it that. In all accounts, writing BIOS code seems to be
a challenge when it comes to synching with new development in hardware. It
would seem this behavior began with the advent of the firmware enabled SATA
compatible boards where the SATA support is often coupled with the RAID
functionality of the chipset.
I'd suggest that you try and unplug everything else that you don't
absolutely need to have the installation successfully complete when that is
in place you plug things back in, taking notes on the above and you have
some control over what ends up where. You may have your drive letters
re-ordered, but you should have some control. Write down a graphical chart
to aid your natural talent for tactics.
An alternative to this might be to disable the chipset RAID and SATA support
and install a Hardware board instead. (One that has driver support)
No guarantee that it works, it does for some. And, of course, see that you
have the latest BIOS!
Tony. . .
Ken said:
I'm really disappointed if thats the case. I've installed literally
hundreds
of OS's and they've always installed to the boot partition, until now. The
SCSI HDD was the primary drive in the BIOS, set as the boot drive, with 3
SATA drives for data and Vista selected the SATA drive, even thought it
was
not set as a bootable drive.
GO figure. My complaint was that, even when I selected the SCSI drive for
Vista to install to, it refused, and selected the SATA drive.
That is, IMHO, a glitch.