I have a gigabyte K8VT800Pro with an AMD 64 3200+ and a Maxtor 6Y080M0 SATA drive. I'm running it under win98SE from an older IDE 20Gb drive as I can't get the bios to select the SATA as the boot drive. There is not option in the BIOS advanced features (the manual says one should appear if I select SCSI) When I try selecting SCSI no option appears and the PC hangs (looking for a SCSI that ain't there I guess I've been advised (by gigabyte) to load all the VIA drivers but I've done that anyway and the system monitor in the control panel shows the VIA drivers loaded (as SCSI components) but this does not change the BIOS options The IDE and SATA RAID options appear but these are run by the OS so I've already booted from the IDE drive at this point The BIOS version is F8 and there are F9 and F10 revisions available but I'm reluctant to do this unless I have too (if it ain't broke ...)
I done something that sort of worked! I copied the DDO driver from the Maxtor driver disc onto a bootable floppy and the SATA booted and now boots without the floppy. The system resources have gone down to 1% (512Mb) though so I'm back to running it from a 20Gb IDE
Out of interest why are you running a 64bit with Win98SE as your operating system? Right, now after my small query, personally i would do this: goto gigabyte driver support page, find the driver page for your motherboard, download the SATA raid driver: driver_raid_via_8237.exe stick the appropriate drivers onto a floppy, remove your 20gb drive, set your bios to boot from sata (SCSI) then put a bootable OS disk of some form in, and load your SCSI driver via F6 key, occasionally (like me) i can never get he F6 key to actually recognise, but you should be prompted for the SCSI driver anyway, as long as it cannot detect any other IDE / UIDE hard drives available. Then you should have no problem.
There are no 64 bit versions of Windows out now (meaning you can't buy it). If you want a 64 bit OS you need to run Linux, and despite what some people say, you NEED Windows simply because 98% of the people use it. I go to college and they use Windows so I need it. I play RVS and there is no Linux version of it. Also, I don't wanna' emulate Windows into Linux as it will be slow as hell, killing the purpose of having a cutting-edge system. At least that's my 2ยข
Sussed it. I reformatted the sata, loaded the (OK it's microsoft) OS onto it, attached a non-bootable IDE (cos it hangs without at least one IDE) put in the 98 install CD and a bootable floppy and reinstalled 98. It works! As for Linux I've a copy of Mandrake 8.2 in front of me can I dual boot it? Is that another thread? Thanks for the support
Yes. As long as you've got an extra partition or hard drive you can use, you're in prime position to setup a dual boot. You probably need to have the SATA drivers for Linux on a floppy as I don't believe Mandrake 8.2 has native SATA support.
I may a bit late responsding, but why don't you download Mandrake 10.0 AMD64? It fully supports 64 bit processing and SATA drives! BTW, Microsoft :swear: has a trial version of Windows XP 64 available for download. I haven't tried it yet, but have downloaded the 30 day trial version. Good luck!
Abit of subject first.. regarding Harrack52's post, Windows is a fantastic operating system, it's extroadinary.. however it is not reliable enough for heavy duty work, stability and security.. which is ashame, however there is no need to be ashamed that you use windows! everyone has to use it, and i was not suggesting by my last post that Windows should not be run under a 64Bit system, just saying Windows 98 although a good operating system Win2k or even *eeek* WinXP would utilise the system more.. I have Windows, use it for all my gaming, everything else i use linux, on a dual boot with SuSe linux Regarding your post northenpenguin, why have you downloaded Windows 64Bit trial when you don't have a 64Bit machine!? (just out of interest).. i presume you are building one? If you want unhassled Sata support on a linux install, install SuSe, its brilliant and onpar with mandrake, both being excellent distros.
The security also depends on who's in control of the system's security. You can have an unsecure Linux server too, if someone doesn't know what they're doing.
Actually, I do have a 64 bit machine...check "My Computer". I have yet to try Windows XP 64, but will next weekend. Mandrake 10.0 AMD64 blazes, as does Debian ia64. Haven't tried SuSe, but will when I get a chance. As for Windoze, I have a number of apps that only run in Windoze, so I'm stuck with running a P4 c/w Windoze 2000 Pro....but not by choice! As for games, not really my thing, I'm more into control systems (wired & unwired). You should see my RF controlled 'bots (look like insects....) cheers all............. :good:
