anybody use a sata pci card?

[imported_mastershake]

here is the deal
i got a 36 gig raptor, it works fine on my computer, so i got a adaptec sata connect to put it in to my brothers computer (which is an asus a7n8x) since he has no onboard sata connections. so it doesn't work as a primary drive. xp was already installed yet it kept rebooting before it got to xp logo. so i tried to install xp again and it says no hard drive is connected. anybody have the same problem?

[Gunslinger145]

Hutawha?

[NoSoup4You]

I'm guessing you need to install the cards drivers before anything will work properly. I believe Windows asks this during the setup, although I could be mistaken. In all honesty, the performance difference isn't going to be that huge compared to a 7200RPM driver. I have 2x74GB WD Raptors in a RAID-0 and in all honesty, there isn't that much of a difference, unless you compare when I'm accessing a huge file, then I'm faster. Otherwise, for gaming and stuff, there is minimal performance increase.