DOS drivers for SATA DVD drive...?!

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I discovered disappointingly that my new system's SATA-II DVD-ROM drive
couldn't be recognized from a DOS boot (using a Windows 98 SE boot
disk).

I have a bootable CD which uses drivers that work fine with my old PATA
CD-ROM drive, but the drivers fail to load for the new hardware.

Could someone please provide me with a link or more info on getting a
DOS driver for use with SATA-II drives?

Thanks.
 
Have you updated your BIOS? Are your SATA connectors on the
mobo or an add-in card?



|I discovered disappointingly that my new system's SATA-II
DVD-ROM drive
| couldn't be recognized from a DOS boot (using a Windows 98
SE boot
| disk).
|
| I have a bootable CD which uses drivers that work fine
with my old PATA
| CD-ROM drive, but the drivers fail to load for the new
hardware.
|
| Could someone please provide me with a link or more info
on getting a
| DOS driver for use with SATA-II drives?
|
| Thanks.
|
 
I discovered disappointingly that my new system's SATA-II DVD-ROM drive
couldn't be recognized from a DOS boot (using a Windows 98 SE boot
disk).

I have a bootable CD which uses drivers that work fine with my old PATA
CD-ROM drive, but the drivers fail to load for the new hardware.

Could someone please provide me with a link or more info on getting a
DOS driver for use with SATA-II drives?

Thanks.
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Seek DOS drivers from the manufacturer of your SATA
controller (chip). We don't know who made it.
 
Win98 knows nothing about sata unless there are sata 98 drivers supplied by
your sata controler manu you are probably out of luck
 
Haven't updated the BIOS yet. The board is an Intel DP965LT, it has
on-board SATA-II support. I'll give this a shot.

I checked Sony's website (manufacturer of the DVD drives) and they
don't appear to have DOS drivers.

I'm going to take a shot at FreeDOS, someone suggested it might support
this situation.
 
You do need to be sure you have enabled SATA on the
motherboard, rather than depending on drivers to load.



| Haven't updated the BIOS yet. The board is an Intel
DP965LT, it has
| on-board SATA-II support. I'll give this a shot.
|
| I checked Sony's website (manufacturer of the DVD drives)
and they
| don't appear to have DOS drivers.
|
| I'm going to take a shot at FreeDOS, someone suggested it
might support
| this situation.
|
|
|
|
| Jim Macklin wrote:
| > Have you updated your BIOS? Are your SATA connectors on
the
| > mobo or an add-in card?
|
 
SATA is enabled on the motherboard, and the drives both appear fine in
Windows XP.
 
I purged old posts, wasn't your issue the IDE DVD drive,
judging just from your subject line. I don't know for sure.




| SATA is enabled on the motherboard, and the drives both
appear fine in
| Windows XP.
|
|
| Jim Macklin wrote:
| > You do need to be sure you have enabled SATA on the
| > motherboard, rather than depending on drivers to load.
|
 
My original issue was that my new system doesn't appear to recognize my
Sony DVD-ROM drive when booting from a DOS or Windows 98 SE boot disk.

I incorrectly assumed the drive was SATA, but it actually is a PATA
drive with the old interface, so I'm a bit stumped that my system
doesn't recognize it. I have a slightly older Sony drive for which DOS
drivers load up fine, but this new one presents "drivers failed to
load".

So far I've tried using a generic DOS boot disk, a Windows 98 SE boot
disk with CD-ROM driver support, and FreeDOS (originally my purpose in
doing this was to boot up a utility CD which has a partition resizing
utility).

I just obtained the Ultimate Boot CD v3.4, I'll try booting with that
tonight and see whether it might have drivers that may recognize the
drive.
 
My motherboard manual lists the BIOS option required to see SATA drives in
DOS, Win 95,98,2K. Did you read yours?
 
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