re: Installing a SATA-II disk and a SATA PCI card
Friday, June 26, 2009 at 10:20 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ed
(659 messages posted)
Happily, I do use Win98SE. And I've found that quite a large number of SATA-I PCI
cards do come with Win98 drivers.
But SATA-II disks usually need to be jumpered down to SATA-I speed, in order to function
with SATA-I PCI cards. Many VIA chipsets for SATA-I cards are said to require the
jumper, as they lack any auto-negotiation capability.
And many SATA PCI cards are limited to supporting disks not exceeding 750GB. This
is not a concern, since (at best) the updated WinME version of FDISK.EXE is limited
to supporting disks not exceeding 512GB.
Thanks very much for all your suggestions.
Ed
On Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 3:58 pm, Richard Harris wrote:
>Non-RAID SATA add-in cards do exist. I have a Roswill RC-220, which works well
under
>XP. The trick to this card is moving a jumper from bootable to non-bootable, when
>using it to drive non-system disks, that is, just data disks.
>
>However, your biggest challenge will be to find an add-in card with drivers for
Windows
>98. I hope that you have 98SE, since there appears to be more support for that
than
>plain 98.
>
>As far as the speed of SATA, that depends on more than just the controller and hard
>drive. At some point the buss will be limiting. I have a circa 2003 motherboard
>with a buss rated at 400 Mhz. Thus, although eSATA-I is theoretically about 4X
faster
>than USB2, I only see a factor of 2X. If I switched form SATA-I to SATA-II I would
>expect no improvment, since I suspect that the SATA controller is not the bottle-neck
>on my PC. Also, at some point the rotation speed of the hard drive will become
limiting.
>
>As another benchmark, I noticed that switching from ATA/100 disks (and controllers)
>to (internal) SATA-I disks (and controllers) increased write speed by about 2X.
>But, I also switched motherboards, from a 100 Mhz buss to a 400 Mhz buss, and with
>a factor of 5 X in CPU speed. So, was the increas in speed due to SATA-I vs ATA
>or other things?
>
>A couple of words of caution on very large disks: (1) Are you sure than 98 can handle
>them? (2) how about the controller on the PCI card? Besides reading the manufacture's
>specifications, do a couple of searches on the card's name/number and words like
>"problem" or "limit". Before I got my card I discovered that some SATA cards are
>limited to under 1000Gig; otyhers can go to 1500 Gig.
>
>Best wishes. You will like SATA (and eSATA), if you can get it to work.
>
>
>
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