PCI-SATA controller for the first Pentium

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icobra2012-11-16 15:05:15

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icobra, 2012-11-16 15:05:15

If anyone has experience installing such a device, and will the operating system be loaded from the SATA disk?

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ipswitch, 2012-11-16
@icobra

It all depends on the controller AND the BIOS of the motherboard.
If the BIOS can boot the OS from an external SCSI/SATA controller, then there will be no problems.
What to refuse immediately: "semi-soft" controllers on the VIA chip.
What may or may not work: Silicon Image (SIL3114)
What will most likely work: Tekram, Promise.
If the controller has its own BIOS that pops up at boot, where you can configure the parameters, this is very good.

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dlinyj, 2012-11-16
@dlinyj

Don't rape the old man!
The experience was, it will not be loaded, because. there are no SATA drivers in the BIOS (it just doesn't know about the existence of such an interface). You can rake the way - loading from another floppy disk bootloader with drivers (for example, GRUB), and then transferring SATA control to the hard disk. IMHO - this is a monstrous crutch-rake.

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avgurus, 2012-11-16
@avgurus

a bit offtopic - if anyone needs it, I can give away a computer on a pentium 1 mmx in an AT case for free) plus a din keyboard and a com mouse, you can bargain about the monitor)
everything works, but I didn’t manage to install wine 98 - if someone writes how (preferably without floppy disks) it would be nice.

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startsevdenis, 2012-11-16
@startsevdenis

There is an opinion that it will not be possible to connect especially, because the entire volume of the disk will not be visible.

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trueClearThinker, 2012-11-16
@trueClearThinker

I tried to somehow put a pci sata controller on an old computer with a Pentium 100 processor (this was in 2007). It all ended with the fact that the controller refused to work, because. the board had PCI 2.0, and the controller was PCI 2.1 - it was seen by the computer, but there was no access to the connected disks.

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Disasm, 2012-11-16
@Disasm

Once did this, though not on such an old hardware. The problem was in the inability to boot from this controller. I had to patch the bios and flash the corrected version. The patch consisted of slipping inside the right driver for the pci controller instead of some kind of French language support module. Try it, maybe you will succeed.