Hallo Herr Deposite Pirate, am Samstag, 24. Oktober 2020 um 10:14 schrieben Sie:
> Hi, > I have a bunch of SATA mechanical hard drives with perfect health > that I've swapped out for SSDs in various laptops. I installed a > 160Gb one with a Silicon Image 3512a SATALink host controller in my > IBM Aptiva E30-2137 (ALi M1531 Aladdin IV chipset). So far it seems > to works great with Windows NT 4. No limitation problems. I use this > machine with CF cards to run various OSes (among which FreeDOS, > DR-DOS). I thought to myself it would be awesome to format the drive > as FAT32 and share it with FreeDOS and DR-DOS. Unfortunately this > SiI 3512a only has Windows drivers and it doesn't look like the > firmware of this card does any BIOS magic to make it available to > DOS. Considering how late FAT32 support came to the DOS family of > OSes I would understand why no manufacturer of SATA add-on host > controller bothered with DOS support. So I am wondering if there is > actually such a thing as an add-on SATA host controller that can be used from > DOS OSes. there are adapters SATA-PATA https://www.amazon.de/Pin-IDE-PATA-SATA-Adapter/dp/B00EOJNGC2 Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
