HDD Support

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serial ata pci card, hardware support, OS only sees a drive

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"Mohmmedirfan" <Mohmmedirfan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> windows 98 SE the Seagate sata HDD ?

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> This is the most indecipherable thread I've seen in a long time. Since you
> seem to understand OP's query, care to translate?

I think that he wants to know whether Win98 supports a Seagate SATA hard
drive. Sounds like it.

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"Gary S. Terhune" <grystnews@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> Hmmm... Good question. I don't know the answer.
>

He'll need to download the updated FDISK from Microsoft.
Otherwise, he should be fine with Windows 95 and above.

http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] -us;263044

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"Gary S. Terhune" <grystnews@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> OK, that addresses the size issue, (and in any case, 3rd-party
partitioning
> apps would work fine, also.) But I don't know what drivers SATA needs, and
> I'd assume that they aren't included in the original installation files.
So
> the question is what drivers does 98 use for SATA drives, and are they
> universally provided in 9x-compatible versions?

Seagate calls it DiscWizard Suite.

http://www.seagate.com/support/dis [...] scwiz.html

You need DiscWizard 2003 or later
when installing a Serial ATA disc drive.

Older versions of DiscWizard
do not recognize Serial ATA model numbers.

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"Hugh Candlin" <No@MeansNo.Com> wrote in message
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>
> "Gary S. Terhune" <grystnews@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:%233AYPSNqFHA.2776@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> OK, that addresses the size issue, (and in any case, 3rd-party partitioning
>> apps would work fine, also.) But I don't know what drivers SATA needs, and
>> I'd assume that they aren't included in the original installation files. So
>> the question is what drivers does 98 use for SATA drives, and are they
>> universally provided in 9x-compatible versions?

YMMV, depending on the BIOS, but 9x shouldn't need drivers to access
a SATA drive, it just won't load it as a PCI device, and instead will
see it as an ISA device needing a dedicated IRQ (a "P"-ATA device).
I can access my SATA drives fine from DOS floppy boot with no drivers
loaded.

FWIU, a SATA supporting BIOS starts out by emulating the drive as a
"legacy" (parallel) ATA device. It then sets a flag, (in some obscure BIOS table)
to signal that the device can be switched over to SATA's "native" mode. The IRQs
can then be freed to be used by other devices. It's up to the OS, if it
understnads (> XP-SP1, Server 2003). If the OS doesn't get it (9x for one),
then the drive will simply be accessed using legacy mode.

In legacy/compatibility mode, you still get the throughput of SATA, but
you have to use the IRQs, and so are limited to 4 drives (assuming a
typical setup), due to IRQ sharing. Another loss would be hot-swapping
if supported.


If using a controller card, I'm not too sure on that; but I suspect it's
the same logic, at least concerning the mode switch. The card is just
extending the BIOS to add SATA hardware capability. It's still up to the OS.



> Seagate calls it DiscWizard Suite.
>
> http://www.seagate.com/support/dis [...] scwiz.html
>
> You need DiscWizard 2003 or later
> when installing a Serial ATA disc drive.

I think that's just their DDO/clone/partition/setup suite thingy.