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    does vista need a floppy to install on sata?

    as the title suggests...does it? i use a sata card on my asus a7n8x-x...
    as i don't have a floppy drive... otherwise a way to edit the iso and add the drivers please?
    cheers
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    Put the drivers on a USB stick.
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    stupid betond belief.
    You owe it to yourself to click here really.

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    simple as that and during installation it will read from the stick? do i need "vista" drivers or will the xp ones work? its some old card i got off ebay so im unsure of any site for its drivers... oh and were will the option to read from usb for drivers be.will i need to watch and hit f8 or whatever?
    Quote Originally Posted by Fraz regarding the Apple Mighty Mouse
    I just got so fed up with this thing for it's crappy erratically working scroll ball and poor right-click detection that I just threw it against a wall and it exploded.

    Good riddance. Wish I'd done it about a year ago.

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    "some old card"
    define please
    I wouldn't imagine XP drivers to work, as vista is totally different

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    well i dont think it has a make on the box ill just check n see what i can read off of it...
    it just says:
    "RAID PCI CARD ... Integrates one UltraATA-133/IDE interface, Supports external FLASH for BIOS for expansion and RAID functions.ferderal communication commision usa. Model NO:A-6421. DB0606141409 MADE IN CHINA" thats your lot:\
    Quote Originally Posted by Fraz regarding the Apple Mighty Mouse
    I just got so fed up with this thing for it's crappy erratically working scroll ball and poor right-click detection that I just threw it against a wall and it exploded.

    Good riddance. Wish I'd done it about a year ago.

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    ahh its a pci sata controller card. who makes the chipset?

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    You could always slipstream the drivers in to a bootable CD with vlite.

    http://www.vlite.net/about.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve B View Post
    ahh its a pci sata controller card. who makes the chipset?
    I'm not sure mate I'll prolly have to open it and find out.I'll post here tomorrow either in the day or around midnight with the details.hopefully should be sorted by then fingers crossed.
    Quote Originally Posted by Fraz regarding the Apple Mighty Mouse
    I just got so fed up with this thing for it's crappy erratically working scroll ball and poor right-click detection that I just threw it against a wall and it exploded.

    Good riddance. Wish I'd done it about a year ago.

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    Quote Originally Posted by keef247 View Post
    "RAID PCI CARD ... Integrates one UltraATA-133/IDE interface, Supports external FLASH for BIOS for expansion and RAID functions.ferderal communication commision usa. Model NO:A-6421. DB0606141409 MADE IN CHINA" thats your lot:\
    General Features
    - VIA VT6421A chipset
    - Supports RAID Level 0/RAID Level 1/JBOD
    - Serial ATA Specification Rev 1.1 compliant
    - UDMA/133 IDE interface

    Connectors
    - One (1) UDMA/133 internal IDE connector
    - Two (2) SATA connectors (one internal, one external - eSATA).
    - Compatible with Windows

    That's probably your chappy. Note however, that one SATA port is internal and one is external, so if you are planning on using it to RAID, one of your disks is going to be outside your case (he says, stating the obvious).

    I suspect you'll also find that Vista has drivers for it built in - it does for all the RAID controllers I've thrown at it so far - the Silicon Image and Uli controllers on my old Abit AT8-32x and also the Intel controller on my Asus P5K Deluxe.

    Cheers,
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    VT6421 ought to be supported out of the box

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    er... seems its not supported by default... the cd i've just found it... says "SUPER SOUND MULTIMEDIA" and google finds no direct site:S it has various drivers on the disc which i have scanned thoroughly in the vista installation startup and nothing i NEED those drivers!!!
    theres silicon image drivers and the via ones mentioned above on the disc.any links to vista drivers for the above chipset directhex please mate?
    EDIT... this has 2 sata drives NOT RAIDed but at both ext3 partitions but one drive has a 24gb vista partition i made on there and its not showing. I don't want to obviously format and loose my data in order to see it mind.I could convert them to ntfs in partition magic i think but surely i should still have the option to format them altogether in vista installation?
    oh and no one of the satas isnt external either. both internal with a ide plug aswell for a 2channel ide drive or 2.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fraz regarding the Apple Mighty Mouse
    I just got so fed up with this thing for it's crappy erratically working scroll ball and poor right-click detection that I just threw it against a wall and it exploded.

    Good riddance. Wish I'd done it about a year ago.

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    Have you tried the XP drivers, iirc i used them on my via chipset for Raid 0 with my mobo which is at least 3 years old, and it works fine, of course for a PCI card I don't know how well it could work, but could give it a try.
    Last edited by master811; 06-08-2007 at 01:40 AM.

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    nah don't worry about it everyone but cheers anyway... I found some random "gigabyte" ones on google even though its not a gigabyte card.and as we speeak im on vista.and its running very smooth and not slow at all as people said it would and I haven't even installed the graphics drivers yet and 1600x1200@70hz is very nice
    cheers guys for all your help anyway
    Quote Originally Posted by Fraz regarding the Apple Mighty Mouse
    I just got so fed up with this thing for it's crappy erratically working scroll ball and poor right-click detection that I just threw it against a wall and it exploded.

    Good riddance. Wish I'd done it about a year ago.

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