SATA adapter in NW8000?

Discussion in 'HP' started by Bill Martin, Jun 11, 2012.

  1. Bill Martin

    Bill Martin Guest

    Hi,

    Anyone know if any of the pata/sata adapters on ebay work in the old
    nw8000? I don't need screaming performance, just has to work with XP
    & HP bios on this machine.

    Thanks,
    Bill
     
    Bill Martin, Jun 11, 2012
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  2. Bill Martin

    W Guest

    Finding a reliable stand-alone SATA controller that is a reliable boot
    adapter has been a problem for me too. I find with multiport units that I
    can stick a boot device in port 0, and as soon as I put a device on an
    additional port 1 to 3, the port 0 device stops beeing seen during the BIOS
    bootup process.

    I have not found a SATA host adapter that has a standalone BIOS application
    with configuration options that can be invoked during the boot process,
    before Windows starts to load.
     
    W, Jun 18, 2012
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  3. Bill Martin

    Bill Martin Guest

    Thanks for your reply. I decided to stay on the "safe" side, and ordered
    a 120GB PATA drive. Think that is as big as I can go for this era of
    machine...anyway, I will know in a couple of weeks how it works out.
     
    Bill Martin, Jun 18, 2012
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