Asus T2-P Barebone System (P4P8T) SATA Driver for...

Many thanks for the reply Paul.  

This would explain why I can't find the drivers anywhere!

The problem I had was after installing XP and finding the Sata boot
drive was showing as I: instead of C: Also it wouldn't see the 2nd
partition (partitioned with Fdisk) so I thought it was a driver
problem after scouring the sites.  Will go back to the drawing
board.

Thanks again.
Jim

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You don't need drivers. The ICH5 has room for four IDE
and two SATA, and the SATA looks to the OS like PCI based
IDE ports (for Win2K and WinXP). A Microsoft driver should work
fine with this, and you should not need F6. As I understand it.

Downloadable files are here, and I don't see any disk specific
drivers except IAAR (which should be restricted to ICH5R Southbridge
designs - why IAAR is in this directory is anyone's guess).
The manual says ICH5 (non-raid) is on the board, so I
don't see how IAAR is going to help.

http://www.asus.com/support/do wnload/item.aspx?ModelName=T2- P&Type=Al...

The &quot;Onboard IDE Mode" [Enhanced] and
"Enhanced Mode Support" [SATA] is suitable for WinXP, and
allows six drives (four IDE and two SATA) to be connected to
the ICH5. I think that is the default in the BIOS. Even if
you don't have a SATA drive, that is a good setting, as the
other enhanced modes cause IDE disk slowdowns.

So, give the install a try without F6.

   Paul