Here is some information about VIA 6421A, i have updated my bios to memphis alternate bios, but still for me it is not best for Win9x, so it waits in the box at the moment.

http://toastytech.com/files/w95stuff.html

marxveix wrote on 2024-03-24, 23:14:

Here is some information about VIA 6421A, i have updated my bios to memphis alternate bios, but still for me it is not best for Win9x, so it waits in the box at the moment.

http://toastytech.com/files/w95stuff.html

What one is better? The only one I know that might be better is the Promise one.

You can flash Silicon Image based SATA controllers to work in IDE compatibility mode instead of AHCI RAID. Search this forum. Lots of threads about it.

I have one of those cards with a hologram SATA sticker on it. Interestingly the ROM chip on mine is a fake, so it can't boot a PC.

demiurge wrote on 2024-03-25, 01:24:

marxveix wrote on 2024-03-24, 23:14:

Here is some information about VIA 6421A, i have updated my bios to memphis alternate bios, but still for me it is not best for Win9x, so it waits in the box at the moment.

http://toastytech.com/files/w95stuff.html

What one is better? The only one I know that might be better is the Promise one.

Promise should be faster yes, i do not have one, but i did not get dma working with 6421A@Win9x, i probably wanted sata to work fast, i give 6421A second try if it gets 90mb/s with Win9x. Promise S150 TX2 - Re: Promise TX4 Sata II PCI Card Windows 95/98/ME Driver.

kingcake wrote on 2024-03-25, 02:13:

You can flash Silicon Image based SATA controllers to work in IDE compatibility mode instead of AHCI RAID. Search this forum. Lots of threads about it.

Yeah I tried that and couldn't get it to work at all.

astonsmith wrote on 2024-03-25, 13:15:

I have one of those cards with a hologram SATA sticker on it. Interestingly the ROM chip on mine is a fake, so it can't boot a PC.

Oh no, I was going to buy one with a hologram on it and want to flash the ROM. Is yours a green PCB or red like this one?

demiurge wrote on 2024-03-25, 21:43:

Oh no, I was going to buy one with a hologram on it and want to flash the ROM. Is yours a green PCB or red like this one?

Mine's got a green PCB, but the board layout is almost identical to the bottom brownish card in those pics (down to capacitor placement etc). I think I was just unlucky.

Hello, I bought one of this card from aliexpress, on card is BIOS chip. I cannot boot from disk connected to this card and I cannot create hardware RAID. Is it possible with some BIOS update or not? I can creat only softvare RAID with use VIA tool in Windows. On card is some jumpers but I dont know how it is work, I dont have any manual or datasheet.

I have motherboard Gigabyte GA-E6010N and I want use it as NAS, but this motherboard have only 2 SATA port, only option is use PCI sata card. System disk and unnecessary data disk is connected on motherboard and I want RAID 1 on this card with 2 SATA HDD with backup. Is possible create hardware RAID?

Thank you.