Der im neuen Hyperion Pro 5.08A Treiberpaket (wir berichteten) enthaltene "PATA/SATA IDE Driver" in der Version 1.40A ist von VIA auch einzeln als Stand-Alone-Variante veröffentlich worden.
Supported VIA Chips and Microsoft Windows Operating systems
The VIA PATA/SATA IDE Driver Package supports VIA PATA and SATA controllers as detailed below.
1. VIA PATA IDE Controllers
South Bridges supported: All VIA South Bridge chips are supported, including VT686A, VT686B, VT8235, VT8237, VT8237R Plus, VT8237R, VT8251, VT8237A, CX700,VX700. Systems supported: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server2003, Windows XP 64-Bit and Windows Server 2003 x64. Windows Vista, it will be supported after V1.50a.
Notes on legacy operating systems: The old VIA Miniport driver v3.20 is included in this package to support the VIA VT686A/VT686B/VT8235 South Bridges under NT4.0, Windows 98SE, Windows ME. All other VIA South Bridges with legacy operating systems should use the Microsoft Default IDE driver.
2. VIA SATA IDE Controllers
VIA SATA controllers supported: All VIA SATA controllers inside VIA South Bridge chips are supported including:
SATA controller inside VT8237/VT8237R Plus/VT8237R.
SATA controller inside VT8251
SATA controller inside VT8237A
SATA controller inside VX700/CX700
Operating Systems supported: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server2003, Windows XP 64-Bit and Windows Server 2003 x64. Windows Vista will be supported after V1.50a. Notes on legacy operating systems: This driver does not supported VIA SATA controllers for Windows NT4.0, Windows 98SE, Windows ME. (This is due to a limitation in the operating system driver structure, where SATA can only be supported in native IDE mode).
Benefits: End-users can enjoy the benefits of the SATA Hot-Plug feature, where a SATA drive can be hot-plugged, detected and used much in the same way as a USB hard drive. This feature is supported under Windows 2000 and later operating systems.
Limitations The default Microsoft driver is used as part of this driver package. The default Microsoft driver does not support the Port-Multiplier feature. To overcome this, VIA is working on providing this support via the VIA IDE Accelerator driver. Users with legacy operating systems (Windows NT4.0, Windows 98SE, Windows ME ) need to set their SATA controller to RAID mode in their BIOS and then use VIA V-RAID driver package.
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