DOS drivers for SATA DVD drive...?!

[DarthContinent]

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.

 

[Jim Macklin]

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.
|

 

[kony]

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.

Seek DOS drivers from the manufacturer of your SATA
controller (chip). We don't know who made it.

 

[DL]

Win98 knows nothing about sata unless there are sata 98 drivers supplied by
your sata controler manu you are probably out of luck

 

[DarthContinent]

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]

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?
|

 

[DarthContinent]

SATA is enabled on the motherboard, and the drives both appear fine in
Windows XP.

 

[Jim Macklin]

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.
|

 

[DarthContinent]

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.

 

[Jerry]

My motherboard manual lists the BIOS option required to see SATA drives in
DOS, Win 95,98,2K. Did you read yours?