Installing Windows was: speakup is nice

[Kerry Hoath]

This is rubbish. Of course Windows has Sata drivers,
however not all are supported with the standard install disks. the same is 
true of Linux if your kernels are too old.
If you have an sp2 xp disk, it supports some Sata chips, sp3 supports more.

It doesn't support every controller, and drivers can be added at install by 
pressing f6 during text mode or added to the disk see below.

You can of course slipstream your own sata drivers in if they are not 
supported using nlite, or do it manually.

If your machine is set to use ahci, you need ahci drivers in Windows which 
they aren't by default. Ahci is good to have, it allows Sata hotswap on 
chipsets that support it and allows native command queuing.

You can switch your drives back to legacy mode, which will allow the OS to 
see them at install time without special drivers.
There are ways of getting drives back into ahci mode after install but they 
involve registry hacking and risk.
The same is true for Linux if switching to ahci remaps the data, you won't 
see your stuff. (this is rare but can happen)

Linux won't find the hard drive on my mininote if it is in legacy mode, but 
it will find it if ahci is enabled.

Many people see their drives not showing up under an installer of either OS 
and panick, rather than tracking down the cause (which I conceed is not 
allways easy).

This situation still exists under Linux if your hardware is esoteric, 
wireless hardware in the new netbooks and unsupported desktop chipsets will 
do this to you also. I have also had esoteric network interfaces not come 
up.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 1:12 AM
Subject: Re: Installing Windows was: speakup is nice


> Windows doesn't have SATA drivers? How quaint?
>
> I've also heard their 64-bit support is behind. Is that so?
>
> Janina
>
> Tyler Littlefield writes:
>> I've got xp. right now, the only thing stopping me from going totally
>> with that rather than with this crap they load is the fact that I can't
>> get sata drivers, and any other xp install doesn't recognize it.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tyler Littlefield
>> http://tysdomain.com
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak"
>> <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
>> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 1:23 PM
>> Subject: Re: Installing Windows was: speakup is nice
>>
>>
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>>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:53:25AM -0600, John G. Heim wrote:
>>>> Oh, shoot! One more major drawback. It doesn't work with Vista. Only
>>>> Windows XP. I'd presume though that you could install XP, install 
>>>> speech,
>>>> and then upgrade to Vista. That used to work when upgrading from 95 or 
>>>> ME
>>>> to XP.
>>>
>>> The other drawback I see here too is that this requires you to have
>>> both legal copies of xp, and an upgrade copy of vista. This could be
>>> quite expensive, assuming you want to go legal of course. Also, this
>>> is fine, as long as it's still possible to buy a copy of xp. However,
>>> once those stop being sold, and you don't have one before that
>>> happens, you're probably out of luck.
>>>
>>> Greg
>>>
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