Reply 20 of 28, by VivienM
justin1985 wrote on 2024-01-29, 22:03:VDNKh wrote on 2024-01-15, 20:43:Getting SATA to work on these VIA boards properly, in my experience, requires RLoew's SATA patch for 98 and his PCI patch specifically for VIA chipsets.
Do you mean you've got Win98 to work nicely with this board in SATA IDE mode using this patch? Rather than the RAID mode, which tends to work with the VIA 5.09 drivers?
What is the RLoew VIA PCI patch? I can't see this on either of the sites that archive his other patches?
There's a VIA PCI latency patch by someone other than Rloew, although officially it isn't really for the 8237+, only older Via southbridges... so I wonder if that's what could be referenced.
The thing is, I believe that installing that 'patch' (which isn't really a patch and more a driver) requires getting 98SE to at least... install and boot... (unlike Rloew's patches you can install from DOS), which in my experience was near impossible.
And if you give up on SATA, these K8M800/8237 chipsets seem to work just fine with 98SE without needing to find just the perfect mix of patches and BIOS settings.