Does a SATA drive need special drivers to work?

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I have an Asus P4P800. The cd it comes with has audio drivers, lan drivers, chipset drivers and RAID drivers. I installed the
first 3, but not the RAID driver because I only have 1 hard drive. Do I need to install some sort of SATA drivers to get the
max performance out of my SATA drive? Or enable something in Windows?

A little about my system:
Asus P4P800
P4 3.2E
1 gig PC3200
GF 6800 GT
160 GB SATA
IDE DVD-ROM
IDE DVD-RW
WinXP Home w/SP1

My XP cd has SP1 already installed, and it picks up my sata drive right off the bat.

Also, I also see Intel Application Accelorator, what does it do and would it make my system faster?
 
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You need no additional drivers for the SATA controller on the P4P800.

(If you have the Deluxe version with a third-party SATA controller added,
you might need drivers for that. I had a vanilla P4P800, so I didn't have
any additional controllers.)

The Intel "Application Accelerator" is really a set of IDE drivers. The only
version compatible with the P4P800 is a set of RAID drivers (RAID 0,
striping, or RAID 1, mirroring). They are of no use unless you wish to add a
second SATA drive and use RAID.

HTH.

Bob Knowlden

Address may be scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.

"husker3in4" <husker3in4@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I have an Asus P4P800. The cd it comes with has audio drivers, lan drivers,
>chipset drivers and RAID drivers. I installed the
> first 3, but not the RAID driver because I only have 1 hard drive. Do I
> need to install some sort of SATA drivers to get the
> max performance out of my SATA drive? Or enable something in Windows?
>
> A little about my system:
> Asus P4P800
> P4 3.2E
> 1 gig PC3200
> GF 6800 GT
> 160 GB SATA
> IDE DVD-ROM
> IDE DVD-RW
> WinXP Home w/SP1
>
> My XP cd has SP1 already installed, and it picks up my sata drive right
> off the bat.
>
> Also, I also see Intel Application Accelorator, what does it do and would
> it make my system faster?
 
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I noted a performance increase on a SATA drive when I enabled enhanced in
BIOS for both PATA and SATA.

"Bob Knowlden" <nkbob@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:304sc5F2r3tumU1@uni-berlin.de...
> You need no additional drivers for the SATA controller on the P4P800.
>
> (If you have the Deluxe version with a third-party SATA controller added,
> you might need drivers for that. I had a vanilla P4P800, so I didn't have
> any additional controllers.)
>
> The Intel "Application Accelerator" is really a set of IDE drivers. The
> only version compatible with the P4P800 is a set of RAID drivers (RAID 0,
> striping, or RAID 1, mirroring). They are of no use unless you wish to add
> a second SATA drive and use RAID.
>
> HTH.
>
> Bob Knowlden
>
> Address may be scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.
>
> "husker3in4" <husker3in4@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:u49qp0pgo2v49f69jqea1pn6e3knt4586l@4ax.com...
>>I have an Asus P4P800. The cd it comes with has audio drivers, lan
>>drivers, chipset drivers and RAID drivers. I installed the
>> first 3, but not the RAID driver because I only have 1 hard drive. Do I
>> need to install some sort of SATA drivers to get the
>> max performance out of my SATA drive? Or enable something in Windows?
>>
>> A little about my system:
>> Asus P4P800
>> P4 3.2E
>> 1 gig PC3200
>> GF 6800 GT
>> 160 GB SATA
>> IDE DVD-ROM
>> IDE DVD-RW
>> WinXP Home w/SP1
>>
>> My XP cd has SP1 already installed, and it picks up my sata drive right
>> off the bat.
>>
>> Also, I also see Intel Application Accelorator, what does it do and would
>> it make my system faster?
>
>