[Gllug] Boot from SATA, not IDE?

Huw Lynes huw-l at moving-picture.com
Mon Oct 31 09:39:06 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 09:53 +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:34:59AM -0000, Huw Lynes wrote:
> > Is there no option for controlling the boot order in the BIOS? Or does
> > the IDE/SATA only show up as one entry?
> 
> 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.

Huw

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