good mobo for sata setup

[tjchino]

ok... i am interested in possibly switching over to sata disks, but i've been unimpressed so far with the ease of setup. does anyone know a motherboard manufacturer that has made it relatively straight forward?

 

[Crashman]

All major boardmakers have some products that are as easy to set up with SATA as standard PATA. It's the controller silly, on-chipset controllers can be configured in BIOS, detecting the drive like a traditional drive, with no need to load additional drivers to set up Windows.

For example, my board has the ICH5R SATA RAID controller built into the chipset, in NON-RAID mode by default, PLUS an ALi SATA/PATA RAID controller. So long as I attach my SATA drives to the ICH5R's ports rather than the ALi's, I don't need to use additional drivers to load windows. Were I to use the ALi controller I'd have to follow the F6 prompt and load drivers, but for the Intel controller I don't.

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[RichPLS]

Actually, they are all rather straightforward.
RTFM, hook up, install and use...

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[tjchino]

thank you crash. clear and helpful... as always.