Hello,
I have been living during the past years ignoring the existence of
S-ATA disks, but nowadays the difference in price between P-ATA and
S-ATA suggests me that I should no longer ignore them ;)
I've always wondered wether they are accessible through int13h. I
guess it should be so, in order t
Hi Aitor,
> I've always wondered wether [S-ATA disks] are accessible through
> int13h. I guess it should be so, in order to boot from them. So is
> it generally true (ie. in all BIOSes, except maybe quite old ones)?
Indeed... All mainboards and controller cards that I know
which have S-ATA conne
I have an eSATA PCI addon card and it works very well for DOS - if
booted, good speed, much better then USB booting. My legacy BIOS doesn't
know SATA but if I set it to boot SCSI it will boot the eSATA PCI addon
card.
The problem is, if you do not boot from the SATA harddisk but from
another hardd
Hi Aitor,
I have many clients using MS-DOS and FreeDOS with SATA drives without
any problems at all. Some boards even have a good access speed, around
25MB/s (comared with 3 to 4 MB/s for non-DMA PATA)
The only brand that is rally problematic in many many many aspects is
ASUS. If you can, avoi
Hi Aitor,
I have many clients using MS-DOS and FreeDOS with SATA drives without
any problems at all. Some boards even have a good access speed, around
25MB/s (comared with 3 to 4 MB/s for non-DMA PATA)
The only brand that is rally problematic in many many many aspects is
ASUS. If you can, avoi
