A
Alan Simpson
Anyone tried using Vista with SATA II drives?
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J
JW
Yes and it works fine.
A
Alan Simpson
Is it on your motherboard or are you using a card? If it's a card, which
one?
one?
J
JW
On my Motherboard. Check the Websites or email the support staff of any
cards you are considering to see if they have Vista drivers.
cards you are considering to see if they have Vista drivers.
A
Alan Simpson
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.
build a Vista machine. But I could use another drive. Seems a waste to buy
anything other than SATA 300 right now.
J
JW
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.
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.
W
wgd
Yes, I have Vista Beta 2 installed on a Seagate 160GB SATAII 3 GB/sec NCQAnyone tried using Vista with SATA II drives?
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.
Z
Zapper
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.
the Windows Performance testing. If nVidia ever gets the Raid driver
working, it should be close to 5.
G
Guest
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.
All I can say is that it loads much faster off of the SATA drive then it ever
did off of the PATA drive.
T
Tony Thijs
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
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