I've seen three boards with SATA and all of them require you to specify SCSI to boot from SATA. But the Silicon Image SATA BIOS has no setting for specifying boot order or whether to allow booting on one or both channels. Real SCSI BIOS's have long had this feature -- you specify which SCSI ID is the boot device, if any. I used to use this to boot Linux off of an Inclose SCSI cartridge if it was inserted, but it would boot Win2K if it wasn't. No more SCSI now on my main system and I'm using XP Professional.
BTW, are there now or are there going to be in the future SATA based CD-ROM and DVD drives?
That would be good. Several of the adaptors that are available support ATAPI devices until then. Actually, I'm building a system now with 2 DVD burners and 4 CD burners for my church. (If I didn't tell you that, you might assume I'm mass producing porn?) The hard drive is real SCSI 10K with a Tekram controller. If possible, I'd like to put in a second SATA PCI controller and have 4 of the ATAPI drives on SATA channels using adaptors and the other 2 as the primary drives on the 2 IDE controllers.
I'm leary of burning to 2 drives on the same cable, but if I can't get the PCI SATA controller to play along, I would have to do that. Nero 6 supports 4 simulatneous burns, even of DVDs I believe, and can be licensed for 7 simulataneous burns.
Petz
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