Is there an F6 option in win98se for loading scsi/raid?

[blackrain]

Or something comparable so that you can do a new win98 install of a sata drive?

 

[markkleb]

I dont think so.
But y would you want raid on win 98?

From what I understand 98 dosent do well with lots of memory, or big hdd's oh yea it crashes all the time too.

All my mobo manuals say cant use raid with win 98.

 

[blackrain]

I have uses for win98....so I like to dual boot. There's a lot of "old stuff" that win98 is good for. I'm seeing if I can set up windows 98se from scratch on a sata drive. I have an abit VT7. Abit's usa website is down right now so I have limited info about whether i can do this.

 

[markkleb]

I just checked and mine said no support for on board raid but the aftermarket raid cards work with win 98

 

[DaveSimmons]

No, not during the install. For SCSI you needed DOS drivers and a boot floppy. For SATA you'd probably need the BIOS to be set to legacy / IDE emulation and not use RAID for your OS drive.

You could always buy a cheap PATA/IDE drive for boot and use sata/RAID for (XP's) data and apps.

 

[markkleb]

http://forum.pcstats.com/archive/index.php/t-17107.html

check this out, it may help

 

[Jiggz]

For every add in RAID card, there is a separate Win95/98 driver which will allow you to configure ther RAID first before installing your Win95/98 OS. You are to configure the RAID as bootable also. Win95/98 will be installed in this RAID which will be assigned C: drive.

 

[blackrain]

Originally posted by: Jiggz
For every add in RAID card, there is a separate Win95/98 driver which will allow you to configure ther RAID first before installing your Win95/98 OS. You are to configure the RAID as bootable also. Win95/98 will be installed in this RAID which will be assigned C: drive.

I booted from the windows 98 cdrom and chose to boot with cdrom drive support. It recognized by SATA connection and gave me a C; drive. I installed win98 on the C: drive. Once the win98 install was finished, I updated the SATA drivers. Worked out great. Thanks for everyone's help.

 

[Bluestealth]

Windows 98SE *gets the chills, had to install that yesterday in VMware to run an application, was semi-shocked when it asked me to enter my product key lol, remembered the first two sequences but had to find where I had written down the rest before I threw out my OEM CD and case. I also found a windows 95 CD, think it might even be 95B lol.

 

[blackrain]

It can be useful for a lot of things that aren't supported in winxp anymore. That's why I have a dual boot.