From: Barry Watzman on
Re: "Microsoft has bundled a plain SATA driver for the Southbridge,
since SP1 of WinXP."

That is not true. Even SP2 does not have built-in Sata drivers (and I
don't think SP3 does but I don't have a Microsoft SP3 CD to verify that).

As far as I know, ***ALL*** versions of XP require an add-on driver to
access SATA drives, unless the motherboard or laptop supports emulation
(which, in fact, most do, today).