Installing Maxtor SATA HD as bootable device

[blackrain]

I have an abit VT7 mobo which supports SATA. In the manual, it talks about setting the SATA controller chip as bootable in the BIOS. That's pretty straightforward.

Then the Maxtor installation guide says to prepare the drive by booting off the maxblast cd. Again, it sounds straightforward.
http://www.maxtor.com/_files/maxtor/en_...ion_guides/sata_installation_guide.pdf

Then the manual says to boot off the windows cdrom. Step 9 on page 13 of the manual says:
9. The windows installer will detect the SATA interface as a PCI mass storage controller near the end. You will ned to provide the drivers for the SATA card at this time.

Here's my problem....the manual only talks about the situation where a SATA card is being used. Since I will be using the onboard sata controller on my motherboard, how do I ensure that the windows98 installation process will see my SATA drive when I boot from the windows 98 cdrom?

Thanks in advance


Edit: By the way, I don't have a floppy drive installed but I suppose I could temporarily connect one up and leave it out of the case.

I also just noticed that abit has downloadable SATA drivers on their website. I know you can install third party drivers for windows xp (F6) but there doesn't seem to be such a mechanism for windows 98.

As a side question, I can remember a time when most games ran on windows 98 and many did not run on windows xp. Do all the games run on windows xp today? It might just be worthwhile to not install windows 98 if I can't install it on this drive

 

[shoRunner]

if its native sata support then it may just show up for win98, if not i don't know of a way to install win98 on it. then again why would you want to?

 

[blackrain]

I guess I didn't think of it at first, but would step 9 equally apply to onboard sata controller drivers as well...i've never heard of windows 98 asking for drivers for a mass storage device, but I guess that's the case according to Maxtor's manual.

So I guess I could use the drivers disk for the windows pre-installation for windows 98?

The sata drivers readme file says the following:
Windows Pre-OS installation Floppy Disk (F6 Installation)
Under Windows 2000 and later OS, while user intends to install OS on the disk attached on the RAID controller, they have to prepare a floppy driver disk including the pre-OS installation files and press ?F6? while boot CD is starting.

The driver disk files had been prepared in this package. Please follow the steps to prepare it.

1. Make sure the target system is already install floppy drive

2. Prepare a empty and valid floppy disk

3. Copy all files under \DRVDISK to the floppy without losing

4. Power on the target machine and boot from the Boot CD. And press ?F6? while the prompt appear on the button line

5. After the booting process ask you to insert the floppy disk, please insert the prepared floppy disk to the floppy drive and press enter

6. Choose the proper item to fit the OS and RAID controller you are installing. Each item shows the matched OS for it.


Interesting that it says: "Under Windows 2000 and later OS"