Booting from Serial ATA?

Walrusbonzo · Apr 4, 2003

Quick question.

I have an NF7-S, can the Serial ATA controller be used to boot off?

Also, can I connect CD drives to it?

core · Apr 4, 2003

in bios you cans choose what you want to boot froom, SATA is an option.

dunno about the cddrives, but i guess it should work with the included adapter

Walrusbonzo · Apr 4, 2003

Hmmmm, interesting, I may try it

Thanks

EDIT: Ok, plugge my single 80GB Maxtor DM+9 8mb cache into the adapter, pluged that into the SATA port, enabled SATA in BIOS, set it to boot from SATA.

Bingo, booted, and I get higher Sandra scores than I did with the NForce 2's own IDE controller, bonus

brywalker · Apr 5, 2003

Careful.

Apparently there is widespread hard disk corruption.

You have been warned.

Jeff7477 · Apr 5, 2003

Nah.....thats really just when running certain drives in Raid. no worries

brywalker · Apr 5, 2003

Actually, its running just about ANY drive. RAID or not, SATA or PATA with converter.

Check the Abit forums, its BAD.

http://forum.abit-usa.com/showthread.php?threadid=6873

Tecumseh · Apr 5, 2003

This is really bad news. When the problems become
wide-spread public knowledge it could slow the move
to SATA. BTW, Silicon Image is more interested in fluff
and marketing than engineering.

OC Noob · Apr 5, 2003

You can't run CDRoms off the SATA because it is limited to ATA100 & 133 drives. Either SATA or the convert that comes with the NF7-S is limited, I can't remeber which.

Read the SATA quick install paper that came with it and it will tell you which it is.

alexhuzar · Apr 5, 2003

All optical drives are ATAPI drives. I have no clue what ATAPI means. Is this possibly why optical drives don't work (yet) with SATA?

P.S. Can anyone explain to me what exactly ATAPI is and/or what it stands for?

k1114 · Apr 5, 2003

There will also be SATA optical drives soon, and SATA hard drives should finally be hitting the shelves this month. I don't know why the onboard SATA here is crap, but I intend on buying a pci card that supports everyrhing and doing my SATA that way.

alexhuzar · Apr 5, 2003

LOL u must have been living under a rock or u might live in the middle of nowhere if you think that SATA drives haven't been in stores for a few months now

Walrusbonzo · Apr 5, 2003

Well, things are still so far so good

MrAngry · Apr 6, 2003

brywalker,
I wouldn't beleive everything you hear on ANY forum,some of the people on the abit forum that own these boards are jumping to conclusions as to why they are having problems with their boards. This board is picky to say the least. I crashed 2 drives because the memory I was using was not compatible with my board and I assume I lost info to the point where it would no longer boot, that was on the IDE ports too.

BTW, ATAPI=AT attachment packet interface, I had to look it up

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