Does a SATA drive need special drivers to work?

I have an Asus P4P800. The cd it comes with has audio drivers, lan drivers, chipset drivers and RAID drivers. I installed the
first 3, but not the RAID driver because I only have 1 hard drive. Do I need to install some sort of SATA drivers to get the
max performance out of my SATA drive? Or enable something in Windows?

A little about my system:
Asus P4P800
P4 3.2E
1 gig PC3200
GF 6800 GT
160 GB SATA
IDE DVD-ROM
IDE DVD-RW
WinXP Home w/SP1

My XP cd has SP1 already installed, and it picks up my sata drive right off the bat.

Also, I also see Intel Application Accelorator, what does it do and would it make my system faster?

You need no additional drivers for the SATA controller on the P4P800.

(If you have the Deluxe version with a third-party SATA controller added,
you might need drivers for that. I had a vanilla P4P800, so I didn't have
any additional controllers.)

The Intel "Application Accelerator" is really a set of IDE drivers. The only
version compatible with the P4P800 is a set of RAID drivers (RAID 0,
striping, or RAID 1, mirroring). They are of no use unless you wish to add a
second SATA drive and use RAID.

HTH.

Bob Knowlden

Address may be scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.

"husker3in4" wrote in message

 >I have an Asus P4P800. The cd it comes with has audio drivers, lan drivers,
 >chipset drivers and RAID drivers. I installed the
 > first 3, but not the RAID driver because I only have 1 hard drive. Do I
 > need to install some sort of SATA drivers to get the
 > max performance out of my SATA drive? Or enable something in Windows?
 >
 > A little about my system:
 > Asus P4P800
 > P4 3.2E
 > 1 gig PC3200
 > GF 6800 GT
 > 160 GB SATA
 > IDE DVD-ROM
 > IDE DVD-RW
 > WinXP Home w/SP1
 >
 > My XP cd has SP1 already installed, and it picks up my sata drive right
 > off the bat.
 >
 > Also, I also see Intel Application Accelorator, what does it do and would
 > it make my system faster?<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->