In pure DOS, such cards will probably not work unless they have their own boot ROM (BIOS extension) on-board.
I believe SATA RAID cards typically did have their own boot ROM on-board, to allow RAID volumes to boot an OS. Those would definitely work in DOS as well. You don't actually have to use the RAID functionality on such card. You can just plug in a single disk and that should boot just fine a well. The first time you boot with such a configuration, the boot ROM might prompt you to press a key during boot, to enter a setup program in the ROM that will require you to configure the disk configuration. But it should be pretty straightforward. You might also be able to find non-RAID SATA PCI cards with boot ROMs on them, but the one I used years ago did not have such a ROM, and I could therefore only use it to add a secondary non-bootable disk to my system. On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 1:20 PM ZB <zbigniew2...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 08:14:44AM +0000, Deposite Pirate wrote: > > > Considering how late FAT32 support came to the > > DOS family of OSes I would understand why no manufacturer of SATA add-on > > host controller bothered with DOS support. So I am wondering if there is > > actually such a thing as an add-on SATA host controller that can be used > > from DOS OSes. > > You don't need any add-ons for SATA controllers to use them under DOS > control. The only problem you may encounter is most probably you won't be > able to use your DVD-ROM, if it's connected via SATA, but your HDD with DOS > installed will work just fine > -- > regards, > Zbigniew > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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