I installed my seagate 3.0 sata 320gig, im not too happy with its performance. And it shows up as a removable drive like my ipod does, I have gigabyte 965p-s3 board and there are no drivers for sata on the site just raid. Any ideas? thanks

raid is the drivers for sata. download to floppy , as windows disk boots the system it will promp you to add sata or scsi drivers

I have the same issues. In my case it is because I originally installed the SATA II drive as storage. If you can you need to reinstall XP and use the F6 option to install the SATA RAID drivers. RAID does't come into play unless you setup an array in the BIOS. It is necessary to install the drivers prior to installing XP in order to setup the SATA controllers. If you didn't do that the drive installed as an IDE drive. Look in the BIOS to see. Mine tests at 137MB burst speed with about 55MB continous. Not bad for IDE but not good for SATA II. I am too lazy right now to reinstall XP. If you don't have a floppy drive you will need to slipstream the SATA RAID drivers into WinXP. nLite can get that done for you.

SATA drive is hot-pluggable, that's why it's showing up as removable drive. But you can;t hot plug the SATA drive with OS in it (ie, your boot drive), you can only hot plug it for the second SATA drive (internal or external). It would be better for you to re-install XP and use the floppy sata driver (F6), because if you don't use the floppy driver and change the sata mode to IDE in bios, then native command queuing (NCQ) will not work. NCQ will only work in non-IDE mode (ie, native mode), and it's much more responsive with NCQ turn on.

yeah i didnt put a floppy in this usb drive work? And i dont need to format just reinstall windows? (not a clean install?)