New information:
I finished installing Win98 on the IDE drive. Next I wanted to use the SATA (formatted with FAT32) to store all the installers for programs I plan to add. When I connected the SATA drive I encountered a screen telling me something about child devices mixing 32-bit drivers and compatibility drivers, this is unsupported, Windows will now use only compatibility drivers for all child devices. When Win98 rebooted the SATA drive was accessible as D:\, however the optical drive will no longer show up within Windows even after the SATA drive is remove. And I don't know how to switch back to 32-bit drivers. If the same occurred when the SATA drive was being used to boot I understand why it would freeze at screen it did.
tincup wrote:Try setting Sata to "IDE Mode" in bios [or whatever the terminology equivalent is]. That's what I do.
The closest that can find is ATA/IDE Configuration.
DISABLED: All IDE resources disabled.
LEGACY: Up to 2 IDE chanels enabled for OS requiring legacy IDE operation.
ENHANCED: All SATA and PATA resources enabled.
I have this set to Enhanced. I don't to see a way to configure SATA separately.
For an individual drive connected through SATA I have options for:
Type [Auto] [User]
LBA/Large Mode [Disabled] [Auto]
Block Mode [Disabled] [Auto]
PIO Mode [Disabled] [0] [1] [2] [3] [4]
DMA Mode [Auto] [SWDMA0] [SWDMA1] [SWDMA1] [MWDMA0] [MWDMA1] [MWDMA2] [UDMA0] [UDMA1] [UDMA1] [UDMA3] [UDMA4] [UDMA5]
S.M.A.R.T. [Auto] [Disabled] [Enabled]
All of them are set to Auto.
squareguy wrote:How big is the partition? Windows 98 doesn't understand LBA48 without a patch.
Using Acronis Disk Director 10 I created 1 partition that is hidden with 20GB of unallocated space before it. Windows 98 formatted and installed to the unallocated space. I later plan to delete the hidden partition, make a backup partition at the end of the drive, and resize the main partition to fill the remaining space. Having done this many times before with Windows 98 makes me think there is something special about SATA that is causing me to encounter roadblocks now (see new information above). Currently the partition is only 20GB.
Jolaes76 wrote:MSFN forum pages have all the necessary info on the topic. (Software tools as well.)
Link to relevant information, please?
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