After some pre-purchase advice. Are PCI SATA cards supported in old Pentium chipsets? I want to be able to install and boot to SATA drives if possible (as I have a ton lying around but no old pata drives).
Are there certain chipsets that I should look for for the SATA controler?
Thank you.
Better take CompactFlash to IDE adapter (CF-IDE adapter) or SD-card to IDE adapter.
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Are PCI SATA cards supported in old Pentium chipsets?
They usually support boot from external SCSI and IDE, so SATA will work too.
Are there certain chipsets that I should look for for the SATA controler?
Silicon Image 3112/3114 proved to be quite reliant and compatible.
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better get a IDE2SATA Bridge, and maybe if you want more speed a Fastrak UDMA 133 Controller.
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Promise TX2Plus PATA+SATA controller works fine in Win98SE, also works on PCI 2.1 motherboards (i.e. i440BX, i430TX etc).
I used the CF option in my 430TX system. It feels like a bit of a waste to use a SATA adapter with it, as I don't want to have double-letter drives in my dozens of partitions. Then again, with smaller SATA drives, that wouldn't be an issue, and might be cool to have drives 20+ years newer than the motherboard.
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