[Gllug] Boot from SATA, not IDE?

Tethys sta296 at astradyne.co.uk
Mon Oct 31 12:24:05 UTC 2005


Huw Lynes writes:

>> Yup, it appears as "Hard drive".  I get the feeling that SATA on this
>> motherboard was something of an afterthought - it uses a separate BIOS
>> and the SATA drives don't appear in the main BIOS settings at all.
>
>well I'll add that to my list of motherboards never to buy.

Not necessarily. This is a BIOS feature, rather than something inherent
in the motherboard. Change the BIOS, and you may well find this problem
fixed.

Tet
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