I have an 865GV ICH5 chipset. There is SATA ehanced mode yes/no and that's it in the bios. You can map SATA to primary or secondary IDE, but that's all you can do.
I tried saying YES to SATA Enhanced mode and primary for IDE mapping SATA to Secondary, didn't work in 98se. I could see about getting a PATA DVD RAM drive or even a PATA CD drive or I suppose I could trying plugging in a USB drive. June 1, 2020 9:41 AM, "tom ehlert" <t...@drivesnapshot.de> wrote: >> Or if that fails, disable AHCI in the SATA controller. DOS is fine with >> drives talking in IDE mode. > > for disk drives, your disk should be supported by the BIOS. it usually > is, otherwise it could not boot from it. > > it doesn't matter at all if it's SATA, PATA/IDE, RAID, SCSI, SAS, MFM, RLL > or whatever happened the last 40 years, your disk is supported by the > BIOS, and anyDOS doesn't even care. it's handled by the BIOS in a > transpüarent way. and that's one of the few advantages anyDOS still has today. > > on the other hand, FreeDOS CD/DVD drivers don't handle AHCI mode. > if you plan to boot from disk, then access the CD, disable AHCI. > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user