Okay so I am starting this topic due to a previouse issue I had, with a SATA drive I attempted to use as storage. The SATA is the Seagate 320.
So I tried to install it, into my windows 98. Apparently Windows 9x is unable to read any hard drives over
a certian amount of Gigs that uses a 48LBA cachce???? ( unless you want to correct me, please correct me ) Which means, you have to partitian the drive.
Meanwhile all 24LBA cache ( correct me on this term ) drives works normal.
I did that but I can't still test to see if this work because I am lacking the power supply cable for the
SATA drive I have.
I attempted to load the drive, but of course 9x tried to read threw the IDE to Sata I have but it will not
read. I could only assume, the VIA fasttrack that is connected to my drive, is what is getting in the way ( because that is detected by 98.
I have been reading, and is appears with many SATA devices a special BIOS is installed on board ( which also comes up via startuo ) and they all are very differnt, Win 9x needs special software to read SATA drives.
Again this is untested because I am lacking the Sata power source, ( it looks as if the SATA drive have a mini power outlet ( when the drive could have fit a big one but it has a mini one ) but I will to wait until I could get a new power outlet.