Introduction; Purpose; Audience; Benefits Of Sata - HP Compaq NX6310 Install Manual

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Introduction

Purpose

This white paper provides instructions on how to successfully incorporate SATA drivers into a
Windows XP installation on HP Compaq Notebook PC models. The following guidelines provide
procedures for adding SATA drivers to RIS installation points; adding SATA drivers to installation
CDs; building an image and switching to SATA AHCI mode; using Sysprep with SATA in AHCI or
NATIVE mode; and adding SATA drivers using WinPE.

Audience

This white paper is for use by HP personnel and customers.

Benefits of SATA

SATA Native Mode is a storage interface technology that provides up to 150MB/Sec transfer rate for
disk traffic, and provides link power management with Intel® Application Accelerator drivers. Intel
Matrix Storage Manager Driver provides support for the SATA Advanced Host Controller (AHCI)
Interface.

System Requirements and Prerequisites

System requirements

Information regarding minimum hardware requirements for installing XP Professional is available at
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www.microsoft.com
The following are the supported models for the subject of this white paper:
HP Compaq 6310, 6320 and 6330 Notebook PC models
HP Compaq 9420 and 9440 Notebook PC models
HP Compaq 6400 Notebook PC models
HP Compaq 7400 Notebook PC models
HP Compaq 4400 Notebook PC models
HP Compaq 8400 Notebook PC models

System prerequisites

You will need the following items before installing SATA drivers:
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2, Certificate of Authenticity and documentation.
• Necessary drivers, especially Intel SATA AHCI Controller Driver (SP32478).
• Proper OS License for each PC
• 1.44 MB Floppy Disk and USB floppy drive. For a list of USB floppy drives supported during
Windows XP installation, please see Microsoft knowledge base article 916196.
The floppy disk is normally required by the Intel SATA ACHI Controller Driver softpaq
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to create an installation disk.
The softpaq creates a WinImage self-extractor file that is written to
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C:\swsetup\SP32478. Some third-party utilities can extract the drivers from this file
without requiring a floppy drive.
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