Installing a SATA-II disk and a SATA PCI card Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 9:29 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ed (659 messages posted) Can anyone recommend a PCI card to add to a Win9x system, that will provide at least one internal SATA port? My system uses PCI 2.2 I'm trying to add a PCI card with 48-bit LBA, to support a new Western Digital SATA-II hard disk larger than 137GB. I'd prefer a PCI card with a Silicon Image chipset. I've heard VIA chipsets can give problems with SATA (in regard to auto-negotiation between SATA-I and SATA-II), and that Silicon Image cards are therefore a better choice for adding SATA support. Can anyone comment on this? I don't intend to use RAID, so I'd prefer a solution with minimum additional complications from that angle. Ideally, I'd prefer a PCI card that comes without RAID support (though it seems to be ubiquitous if there are two or more SATA ports on the card). I'd be happy to settle for a card that has optional RAID (e.g. where the PCI card has the option to use a non-RAID BIOS). Are there any disadvantages to a SATA disk, compared to an IDE / PATA disk? This will be my first forray into SATA: I've previously only used IDE. Ed Responses to this message: re: Installing a SATA-II disk and a SATA PCI card (bob wells: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 5:14 pm) re: Installing a SATA-II disk and a SATA PCI card (Richard Harris: Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 3:58 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Installing a SATA-II disk and a SATA PCI card (Ed: Wed, Jun 24, 2009, 9:29 am) re: Installing a SATA-II disk and a SATA PCI card (bob wells: Wed, Jun 24, 2009, 5:14 pm) re: Installing a SATA-II disk and a SATA PCI card (Richard Harris: Thu, Jun 25, 2009, 3:58 pm) re: Installing a SATA-II disk and a SATA PCI card (Ed: Fri, Jun 26, 2009, 10:20 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum