Try a standard HDD instead of the SSD.

philscomputerlab wrote:

Try a standard HDD instead of the SSD.

Already tried with a IDE usual hd on the mainboard controller and it installs ok. It's certainly the raid/SSD the problem but no options can be set at boot to modify something. I can try disk cloning with a real HD.

I meant try a SATA HDD on the PCI controller.

Does it need special drivers? Does it work if you install 98 onto a working IDE drive then try to access the SSD as drive D: or similar?

Update: I tried disk cloning a fresh win98 install from a ide disk and disabling the original. It boot ok and all. No DMA is possible to set up on disk proprieties by the way.
I still don't know what happen at the first reboot that it hang, it's a pain if I have to install everytime on a ide disk before working with it.

Malvineous wrote:

Does it need special drivers? Does it work if you install 98 onto a working IDE drive then try to access the SSD as drive D: or similar?

No drivers are requried to access disk not even as D:. It ask only Raid drivers I think to use Raid option (and also some Visual Studio packages I don't have).

In the meanwhile tried the Disk Speed tool:

Access time: 0,32ms
Cached Speed: 155,53 MB/s
Max read Speed: 75,76 MB/s
Overall Score: 36229,2

Are these good?

A strange thing also is that the IDE led now doesn't show always disk activity and there's no jumper led on the sata card as the old isa controller had.

386SX wrote:

In the meanwhile tried the Disk Speed tool: […]
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In the meanwhile tried the Disk Speed tool:

Access time: 0,32ms
Cached Speed: 155,53 MB/s
Max read Speed: 75,76 MB/s
Overall Score: 36229,2

Are these good?

A strange thing also is that the IDE led now doesn't show always disk activity and there's no jumper led on the sata card as the old isa controller had.

These are very good!

Reason I asked to use a standard SATA drive is because I also had trouble with SSD. SATA drives however work fine.

The Sil3114 has virtual / internal DMA, no need to enable it. The max read speed speaks for itself 😀

I've added another W9x benchmark, ATTO 2.41!

philscomputerlab wrote:

These are very good! […]
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386SX wrote:

In the meanwhile tried the Disk Speed tool: […]
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In the meanwhile tried the Disk Speed tool:

Access time: 0,32ms
Cached Speed: 155,53 MB/s
Max read Speed: 75,76 MB/s
Overall Score: 36229,2

Are these good?

A strange thing also is that the IDE led now doesn't show always disk activity and there's no jumper led on the sata card as the old isa controller had.

These are very good!

Reason I asked to use a standard SATA drive is because I also had trouble with SSD. SATA drives however work fine.

The Sil3114 has virtual / internal DMA, no need to enable it. The max read speed speaks for itself 😀

I've added another W9x benchmark, ATTO 2.41!

I ran the benchmark and here's the best result:

Write ~55 MB/S Read ~83 MB/S with 2048 test. From 256 to 8192 they are almost equals.

Would you be so kind and attache the exact driver (and maybe BIOS) that you used?

And a photo of the controller, or eBay link, as there are quite a few models out there.

Thank you!

after a few days of use on windows 98
With this
Sata controller i had a problem.
It mess up my installation with a problem on expanded memory and system cannot found emm.386
This problem has been reported everytime winows starting up
Pulling out the controller everything is normal again.

Any help??