dual boot advice

[wtw at fuse.net]

---- Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> wrote: 
> Hello;
> 
> I need to upgrade my dual-boot box with SuSE and XP (i.e. I need a new 
> motherboard).
> 
> Currently I have an IDE port for the Windows drive and a SATA controller 
> for the linux drives, but most new motherboards have only SATA ports.
> 
> There is considerable confusion on the web about installing XP on SATA 
> drives, some talk about needing a floppy w/ the SATA driver, some talk 
> about disabling AHCI in BIOS before loading XP.
> 
> Is there anyone out there that actually knows how to do this properly?
> 
> Thanks
> 

Not sure about in a dual booting situation, but I've always just disable the AHCI or set it to Legacy mode in the BIOS and have been able to boot XP fine.  YMMV.

--Tom