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From: Yousuf Khan on 12 Jan 2010 15:28
R wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:47:32 -0500, Yousuf Khan
> <bbbl67(a)spammenot.yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> R wrote:
>>> Does anyone make a PATA controller with Win7 drivers? I've been
>>> looking at the VIA chipset boards, but I can't find Win7 drivers on
>>> their site.
>> Shouldn't there still be standard Microsoft ATA drivers packaged with Win 7?
>>
>> Yousuf Khan
>
> If there are, I haven't heard them mentioned by manufacturers yet. The
> Win7 driver structure must be different enough from Vista 64 that
> there's some reluctance to port older technologies... Hence Matrox
> abandoning Win7 support for some of their older products, etc. Given
> that, I wasn't expecting to see any out-of-the-box P-ATA drivers.
> Anyone know if they exist?

Oh, you're talking about a plug-in PATA card, rather than the built-in
controllers on motherboards. Sorry, I misunderstood.

For those, I'm sure that the Vista drivers will work, if they have any.

Yousuf Khan
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