Installing new hard drive

On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 13:32:54 +0100, Piotr Makley wrote:


I am interested in IDE controller chipsets because I need to keep
an eye on what the controllers are when I change the mobo for
WinXP.

Seems that XP gets installed with a driver for only one particular
IDE controller.

Where can I get a list of controller chipsets used over the last
three years or so?

Don't know where to get the list but is that really usefull? You can't
expect to move a RAID 0 array to another controller anyway, yet if it's a
RAID 1 it may be picked up fine. Since you'd know the current controller
being used and the next that decision can be made at the time.

So far as drivers go it's just a matter of a repair install then updating
the driver when prompted. There may be another way to do it while the 1st
board is still up & running but I don't know how.