Hi! > Can I boot FreeDos from a SATA HDD and how to format the SATA HDD in > order to boot FreeDos from it? Best regards, Radoslav Tchipanov
No problem at all. As opposed to Windows, where SATA drivers are not always included, DOS just uses the BIOS as driver and as your BIOS supports booting any OS from SATA, this includes that you can fully use your SATA harddisk in DOS... :-) Some caveats: If your harddisk uses a GPT partitioning scheme (not the classic MBR) then you cannot yet have a DOS partition installed on it. Also, harddisks with sectors larger than 512 bytes are not supported yet, in particular not for booting. In general, only disks larger than 2 TeraByte (!) are problematic which means thousands of GigaByte or millions of MegaByte :-) Also, the BIOS driver will usually not have the highest possible speed with your harddisk, but only multitasking operating systems with NCQ (multiple concurrent queued I/O) reach top speed anyway. Eric PS: I suggest that you use another operating system tool, e.g. GPARTED if you use Linux, to format and partition your disk if you plan to have multiple operating systems on the disk. If you want to use the disk ONLY for DOS, any DOS fdisk should be okay. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
