I have an eSATA PCI addon card and it works very well for DOS - if booted, good speed, much better then USB booting. My legacy BIOS doesn't know SATA but if I set it to boot SCSI it will boot the eSATA PCI addon card.
The problem is, if you do not boot from the SATA harddisk but from another harddisk (IDE, SATA) or another device (floppy, CD, USB) there will be no way to access your SATA harddisk. Some BIOS have an option to switch from AHCI to IDE Emulation Mode, but not all and I can not tell you how good this is working. -mr Aitor Santamaría schrieb: > Hello, > > I have been living during the past years ignoring the existence of > S-ATA disks, but nowadays the difference in price between P-ATA and > S-ATA suggests me that I should no longer ignore them ;) > I've always wondered wether they are accessible through int13h. I > guess it should be so, in order to boot from them. So is it generally > true (i.e. in all BIOSes, except maybe quite old ones...)? > > Aitor > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
