GA-MA78GM-S2H SATA Setup

I'm getting ready to assemble a system with the GA-MA78GM-S2H and a SATA HD
and Optical Drive. Can anyone explain the SATA options in the BIOS. I
don't want a RAID setup, but should I select native IDE or AHCI? Can I
install WIN XP from the SATA optical drive or do I need to use an IDE drive?
Do I still need to use F6 and a floppy disk during installation?

Ed

In article <wbmdndsTPsjtxezVnZ2dnUVZWhednZ2d@comcast.com>,
edaugst@comcast.net says...
> I'm getting ready to assemble a system with the GA-MA78GM-S2H and a SATA HD
> and Optical Drive. Can anyone explain the SATA options in the BIOS. I
> don't want a RAID setup, but should I select native IDE or AHCI?

Native IDE.

> Can I
> install WIN XP from the SATA optical drive or do I need to use an IDE drive?
> Do I still need to use F6 and a floppy disk during installation?
>
> Ed
>
>
>

A sata optical drive should show up as an ide drive if the native
ide setting is enabled for that port.

Bill

Bill wrote:
> In article <wbmdndsTPsjtxezVnZ2dnUVZWhednZ2d@comcast.com>,
> edaugst@comcast.net says...
>> I'm getting ready to assemble a system with the GA-MA78GM-S2H and a SATA HD
>> and Optical Drive. Can anyone explain the SATA options in the BIOS. I
>> don't want a RAID setup, but should I select native IDE or AHCI?
>
> Native IDE.
>
>> Can I
>> install WIN XP from the SATA optical drive or do I need to use an IDE drive?
>> Do I still need to use F6 and a floppy disk during installation?
>>
>> Ed
>>
>>
>>
>
> A sata optical drive should show up as an ide drive if the native
> ide setting is enabled for that port.
>
> Bill
Why not AHCI? I thought AHCI allowed all the drives features to be used.
eg, NCQ,etc.

This is just a question, I'm not having a go at you. I would love to
know the difference.

cheers
Gordy

One more thing to check is the sata hd. One I installed, a Seagate 320 came
jumper for 1.5
transfer rate. I had to change the jumpers on the back to get the 3.0 rate.
No big deal.

"Ed Augst" <edaugst@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:wbmdndsTPsjtxezVnZ2dnUVZWhednZ2d@comcast.com. ..
> I'm getting ready to assemble a system with the GA-MA78GM-S2H and a SATA
> HD and Optical Drive. Can anyone explain the SATA options in the BIOS. I
> don't want a RAID setup, but should I select native IDE or AHCI? Can I
> install WIN XP from the SATA optical drive or do I need to use an IDE
> drive? Do I still need to use F6 and a floppy disk during installation?
>
> Ed
>

In article <GZ6dnVHqDt-1he_VnZ2dnUVZ_i2dnZ2d@posted.internode>,
Gorby@OldRussian.empire.net says...
> Bill wrote:
> > In article <wbmdndsTPsjtxezVnZ2dnUVZWhednZ2d@comcast.com>,
> > edaugst@comcast.net says...
> >> I'm getting ready to assemble a system with the GA-MA78GM-S2H and a SATA HD
> >> and Optical Drive. Can anyone explain the SATA options in the BIOS. I
> >> don't want a RAID setup, but should I select native IDE or AHCI?
> >
> > Native IDE.
> >
> >> Can I
> >> install WIN XP from the SATA optical drive or do I need to use an IDE drive?
> >> Do I still need to use F6 and a floppy disk during installation?
> >>
> >> Ed
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > A sata optical drive should show up as an ide drive if the native
> > ide setting is enabled for that port.
> >
> > Bill
> Why not AHCI? I thought AHCI allowed all the drives features to be used.
> eg, NCQ,etc.
>
> This is just a question, I'm not having a go at you. I would love to
> know the difference.
>
> cheers
> Gordy
>

Because AHCI is < according to the manual > only properly recognized
by Vista at boot time. Win XP with SP2 or higher will work with
native ide properly. Win XP original and or Win SP1 May work also.
I can't say for sure because I don't have them. I have managed to get
WinXP SP2 to work with AHCI HDs once it was installed. Probably some
patch I downloaded enabled this but I had to use native ide at
install time. Couldn't say about SP3, I tried to install it twice and
it ******* up the previously installed OS. I'll just stay away from
it for a while.

Bill

I went ahead and installed with the native IDE settings and everything went
ok. Thanks to everyone for the advice.

Ed

"BigJim" <woody10277@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:N-qdnVcKa4bs1O_VnZ2dnUVZ_g2dnZ2d@comcast.com...
> One more thing to check is the sata hd. One I installed, a Seagate 320
> came jumper for 1.5
> transfer rate. I had to change the jumpers on the back to get the 3.0
> rate. No big deal.
>
> "Ed Augst" <edaugst@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:wbmdndsTPsjtxezVnZ2dnUVZWhednZ2d@comcast.com. ..
>> I'm getting ready to assemble a system with the GA-MA78GM-S2H and a SATA
>> HD and Optical Drive. Can anyone explain the SATA options in the BIOS.
>> I don't want a RAID setup, but should I select native IDE or AHCI? Can I
>> install WIN XP from the SATA optical drive or do I need to use an IDE
>> drive? Do I still need to use F6 and a floppy disk during installation?
>>
>> Ed
>>
>

In article <muOdnb3lqaoek-nVnZ2dnUVZ_qbinZ2d@comcast.com>,
edaugst@comcast.net says...
> I went ahead and installed with the native IDE settings and everything went
> ok. Thanks to everyone for the advice.
>
> Ed
>
> "BigJim" <woody10277@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:N-qdnVcKa4bs1O_VnZ2dnUVZ_g2dnZ2d@comcast.com...
> > One more thing to check is the sata hd. One I installed, a Seagate 320
> > came jumper for 1.5
> > transfer rate. I had to change the jumpers on the back to get the 3.0
> > rate. No big deal.
> >
> > "Ed Augst" <edaugst@comcast.net> wrote in message
> > news:wbmdndsTPsjtxezVnZ2dnUVZWhednZ2d@comcast.com. ..
> >> I'm getting ready to assemble a system with the GA-MA78GM-S2H and a SATA
> >> HD and Optical Drive. Can anyone explain the SATA options in the BIOS.
> >> I don't want a RAID setup, but should I select native IDE or AHCI? Can I
> >> install WIN XP from the SATA optical drive or do I need to use an IDE
> >> drive? Do I still need to use F6 and a floppy disk during installation?
> >>
> >> Ed
> >>
> >
>

Thanks for returning to say it worked. A lot of people don't bother.