First post, by vetz
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I've installed a Silicon Image 3512 in my Compaq Presario. It recognizes the S-ATA drive in Windows and DOS. So far, so good. The Compaq does not have an option in the BIOS to change boot order. It is locked on floppy, CD-ROM and C: (IDE) in that order. It won't boot from any SCSI or IDE controller board.
Disconnecting the IDE drive makes an error called "DISK CONTROLLER ERROR" appear, refusing any booting from floppy or CD-ROM. The computer apparently requires a IDE drive to be connected before it can boot. So I was planning on maybe buying a IDE to SD card adapter to use as a boot device and then load Windows from the S-ATA drive. In the past I tried a IDE to CF card adapter and that didn't work. I've since read that some adapters isn't properly recognized as a harddrive on old computers making them non-bootable. I don't have a CF card laying around, but I do have SD cards.
This is the SD card adapter I've been looking at:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Secure-Digital-SD-SDH … =item335fb206f1
There is also the possibility to use an IDE to S-ATA adapter (like the one Maur1wulf1977 tested), but the one I got never worked properly. I would also think that proper drive recognizing, size problems (8gb is the limit on the built-in IDE controller), and performance would be a hinder going that route. I would like to stick with the S-ATA controller card.