- #STANDARD SATA AHCI CONTROLLER DRIVER FOR WINDOWS CREATOR INSTALL#
- #STANDARD SATA AHCI CONTROLLER DRIVER FOR WINDOWS CREATOR DRIVERS#
- #STANDARD SATA AHCI CONTROLLER DRIVER FOR WINDOWS CREATOR DRIVER#
- #STANDARD SATA AHCI CONTROLLER DRIVER FOR WINDOWS CREATOR MANUAL#
#STANDARD SATA AHCI CONTROLLER DRIVER FOR WINDOWS CREATOR DRIVER#
However, Windows 9x can be forced to let BIOS handle the hard drives (MS-DOS Compatibility Mode), by removing (or renaming) the ESDI_506.PDR driver file. Otherwise, Windows 9x would freeze the moment the control of storage devices were handed to Windows' drivers. (In such modes, the ports active may be either IDE or SATA depending on your physical configuration). Windows 9x's IDE driver assumes the old standard "Primary" and "Secondary" IDE channels, so you may also set your motherboard's storage configuration to "Compatibility Mode" or "Legacy IDE", which limits the maximum available storage ports to four. the minor performance increase of AHCI is not really worth the hassle in such a case. My suggestion would be to simply stick with IDE mode in such a multiboot environment. While that usually works, it can fail to the point that a reinstallation is necessary.
#STANDARD SATA AHCI CONTROLLER DRIVER FOR WINDOWS CREATOR DRIVERS#
To prevent that, you have to switch the AHCI drivers with standard IDE drivers prior to switching SATA mode. If you installed Windows XP with AHCI drivers and you then switch the SATA ports to IDE mode, windows will crash with a bluescreen, because it can't "find" the Boot device. If you have a VIA controller that does not detect a SATA device and the device has no such jumper, it won't work. Some devices have a jumper to limit them to SATA I. In many Bios setups the AHCI mode is often called "raid" mode, despite having no connection to any raid setups, IDE mode is often called "legacy" mode.Įarly VIA SATA controllers (they are very common, unfortunately) do not work well with SATA II or III devices. If your board has an additional controller that one can usually be set independent of the chipset integrated controller. Some motherboards allow a certain granularity with which to set SATA ports as either AHCI or IDE compatible, however most allow only to set the mode for all ports on one controller. Windows XP needs device specific drivers to support AHCI and those drivers can either be found on the websites of the motherboard manufacturers or the website of the chipset makers. To use SATA drives under windows 9x, the SATA ports must be in IDE mode. Windos 9x can not be made compatible with AHCI, I believe it is because it is still based on DOS and therefore uses BIOS commands at the beginning of the boot process that don't work with AHCI. Neither Windows 9x, nor XP prior to either SP1 or SP2 have any support for AHCI, which these drivers are for. Is/are there SATA drivers for Windows 98 SE, and if so, where can you find them? From the same places mentioned above, or somewhere else?
#STANDARD SATA AHCI CONTROLLER DRIVER FOR WINDOWS CREATOR INSTALL#
Now, I could just install Windows 98 SE next to Windows XP, and allow the motherboard to handle Win98's lack of SATA support by just changing the characteristics of the hard drive's SATA port to make it act like an IDE port, but I wonder.
#STANDARD SATA AHCI CONTROLLER DRIVER FOR WINDOWS CREATOR MANUAL#
It says in its manual that for pre-XP operating systems, the SATA ports essentially become IDE ports. First, let us assume that I am using a Asus P4P800S-E motherboard (page where you can find the manual for it here).
However, where do you find that driver file from? From the hard drive manufacturer' website? The motherboard manufacturer's website? Somewhere else entirely?Īnother thing. To begin with, for example, I know that during the installation of Windows XP, you can install a SATA driver from a floppy drive. However, there is a lot I do not know, and that's why I'm here.
You see, I plan to do a Pentium 4 Windows 98 SE/Windows XP retro gaming machine build in the (hopefully near) future, and I would very much like to use the SATA ports on Pentium 4 motherboards for the hard drive. Okay, I have a (few) question(s) regarding how SATA drives with their drivers work under and interact with Windows 98 SE and Windows XP.
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