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From: Diver_Doc on 11 Dec 2005 12:46
Greetings!

I am new to this S-ATA stuff.

Running an ASUS P5LD2-VM. Two S-ATA sockets on MB - one labelled S-ATA
1-3 and the other labelled S-ATA 2-4.

I installed a single S-ATA drive (my bootable XPdrive), and plugged it
into the 1-3 SATA socket and it was recognised as Third Primary
Master.

1. Why the Third?

How do I get it to be recognised as FIRST Master?

2. I should be able to install four S-ATA drives on this MB - how do I
do that? Do I need a "splitter" of some kind to install more than two
S-ATA drives?

Thanks!

Doc
From: HalRogers on 12 Dec 2005 10:31
I've only installed two SATA drives in each of my systems, one has a
Gigabyte motherboard, the other an ASUS. in both, the IDE Master and
Slave on each of the two IDE ports are "found" by the BIOS before the
SATA drives.

In the BIOS, you can select which drive will be used as the BOOT
drive.

In some cases, when installing Windows you may need to create a floppy
with drivers for the SATA drive(s) that is read during the preparation
process to install Windows.

The SATA drives are noticeably faster during install, and defragging,
and most everything else.

Hal

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