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SiI3114 Windows 98 IDE driver request

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First post, by th1r5bvn23

Posted on 2019-09-23, 07:49

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I spent a lot of time googling and using archive.org but only found IDE drivers for XP/Vista/7 and RAID drivers for 98/XP/Vista/7. Also downloaded driver packs from vogons driver library and Phil's site, but neither contains an IDE driver for Windows 98. So I'm here to request a latest IDE mode driver for Windows 98. Thanks.

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Reply 1 of 4, by Warlord

Posted on 2019-09-23, 08:07

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You need to flash the bios, so it becomes IDE first.
SIL3114 sata card, need ide firmware.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B36Axm9Et6RS … FB3bnlXRjA/view

Reply 2 of 4, by jaZz_KCS

Posted on 2019-09-23, 09:19

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How do you know that his adapter isn't already running in SATALink (Ultra) mode as opposed to SATARaid (RAID) mode? I guess because there are no drives found at windows installation 😀

Anyways, for Windows 9x, you have to use the v1.2.0.5 driver that is labelled xp-2k, which also works for Win9x. Win9x Installation instructions are described in the readme under point 9 and 10.

As Warlord correctly stated, make sure that the adapter is running in non-RAID/IDE/Link mode (SataLINK) instead of RAID (SataRAID) mode. You can watch for boot strings upon bootup and tell which mode is being run.

Reply 3 of 4, by th1r5bvn23

Posted on 2019-09-23, 10:20

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Thanks for your help. I found V1.3.10.0 driver from 2009 archive of Silicon Image official website and that seems to work with Windows 98. Flashed IDE mode BIOS V5.5.0.0.

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Reply 4 of 4, by jaZz_KCS

Posted on 2019-09-23, 15:07

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th1r5bvn23 wrote:
Thanks for your help. I found V1.3.10.0 driver from 2009 archive of Silicon Image official website and that seems to work with Windows 98. Flashed IDE mode BIOS V5.5.0.0.

I just checked and although the readme files from the 1.3.10.0_x86 driver do not mention Win98 anymore, it's just a neglect, and they indeed do work with Windows 98

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