Hi Eric, good question! From what I understand, he cannot boot SATA drive because BIOS does not see SATA driver during boot prompt due to add-on controller card. If not, then my answer was not correct.
Lukas On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 8:07 PM Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > Hi! > > I am not sure if we have understoood Jon's question correctly. > > Does he need any changes for the BIOS at all? Maybe the issue > is simply that MS DOS can only use the first 8 GB of your disk, > with at most 2 GB per partition, because it is FAT16 CHS only? > > Many old BIOSes already work fine for the first 128/137 GB if you > have a LBA FAT32 DOS such as FreeDOS, EDR-DOS or Win98 DOS 7 :-) > > And as far as I have understood, he can boot either from onboard > IDE (PATA) controllers or from his add-on SATA controller card. > > So I think I need to understand what exactly he can NOT do yet. > > Eric > PS: Actually old PCI network cards work better than ISA ones. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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