SATA drive with 98SE on IDE?

[Auminer]

Have the A7N8X Deluxe MB with 98SE on an 80G and 40G IDE. I have connected a 120G SG SATA drive and want to retain 98SE and dual boot to XP on the 120 drive, using System Commander which is installed on the 98 drive.

I haven't seen the "PCI Mass Storage Controller" asking for drivers on bootup, and of course the "SCSI and RAID Controllers" is not showing in device manager either.

Believe I have followed everything, but obviously not. SATA drive plugged to the MB as master, power to it, jumper on board is correct, and third bootable drive set to SCSI in bios.

Raid sees the HD, so I assume it is hooked up, but I'm not using Raid with one HD.

HD not showing up in windows explorer either of course.

Advanced Thanks,
Dave

[BipolarBill]

You don't want SATA as a bootable drive. Remove it. Be sure that SATA is enabled in BIOS setup and is not set for RAID mode.

After you see that Win98 picks up the SATA controller and drive, boot from the Windows XP CD and press F6 when Setup first begins. Load the SATA drivers and continue. Partition and format the SATA drive in WinXP setup.

[Auminer]

Be sure that SATA is enabled in BIOS setup and is not set for RAID mode
It is not now a bootable drive.

Bill, I can't see anywhere to enable SATA in bios, and I have removed 3112 SATARaid controller. SATA drive is not now showing as a drive in Device manager either, should it be showing there?

After you see that Win98 picks up the SATA controller and drive
Where will I see this?

What I'm trying to do is retain both of my IDE drives with 98 along with data and install XP on the SATA drive. Possible?

Dave

[BipolarBill]

You don't make any sense at all.

You said that tha SCSI controller didn't show in Device Manager. Now you say it "does not now show" in Device Manager. Did it or did it not show?

You say there's no SATA in BIOS but you say that you removed the 3112 Controller. What do you thing that the controller is? That's right - it's the SATA controller.

The drive won't show up in MY Computer until it's formatted and assigned a letter.

Please read your manual. Enable the controller and boot into Win98. Open a DOS window and type FDISK . FDISK and format disk 3.