Sata Optical drive booting.

[Kumagoro]

I planned on having an all sata rig for my next build but recently read that you cant boot from a sata optical drive.

I had never heard of this before and have assumed that you
would be able to.

What I want to know most is can I use a sata optical drive to install windows XP (SP2 version) like I would with an IDE one.

[Metier9]

It works fine on my PC, XP SP2 with maxtor sata's

[EtheAv8r]

Works Fine on my ASUS Commando. Drive is Samsung SH-S183A

[Kumagoro]

Thanks thats good to know.

I'm now wondering why it was stated that as a problem in the
Mag I read.

[Skeem]

Hmm...windows can be a problem to install, for me SP1 worked but SP2 didn't...still not sure why(nor care), possibly sata drivers?.

[EtheAv8r]

SP2 generally does not require you to press F6 and load SATA drivers at the beginning of the install - did not with 2 new ASUS (Commando and M2V) i recently bought.