*does not see SATA drive On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 9:21 PM Lukas Satin <luke.sa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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