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May 16, 2005
Beware the Fine Print: Part 3
Yep, it works. It sucks that the only way to load a 3rd party "SCSI" driver at system install time is through a floppy disk, but whatever. I hope that Longhorn's [microsoft.com] installation procedure is a little more flexible. I guess I don't really understand why XP's install limits this functionality to floppy only. I kept a close eye on what drivers it reported loading and it looked like both UHCI and OHCI (USB) drivers were being loaded. Why can't I load drivers from a USB drive? A serious flaw even when XP was released in 2002 (?).
Either way, I was able to load XP on a single SATA drive hosted by the VIA VT8237 southbridge chipset on a Soltek SL-B7C-FGR.
Posted by Guy at May 16, 2005 08:40 PM