hard drive + controller card issue

[lori1171963]

ok, i have a pc, that the drive went bad. This pc had win 98 on it and the hard drive was an ata 66.
I got a new hard drive ata100/133, but I also had to order a pci controller card because the pc would not see this drive.
Now for the problem, I need a app that will boot a new reformated disk, without win 98 onit, so I can add the drivers for the controller.
Not sure this is possible, because if the pc will not see the drive, how can I install the drivers for the controller card, so the pc will see the drive, so i can install win 98 on it.

[bailey]

is it possible to make a boot floppy with the drivers needed for the controler and them format the drive and install with all the necessary files ?

[glc]

Are you saying that when you boot with the Win98 CD and run FDISK, no hard disks are found? Does the controller card's bios see the drive properly?

[lori1171963]

I might be able to put drivers on floppy disk.
No the bios does not see the drive when booting with win 98 startup disk, and I try to run fdisk because the bios will only see ata 66 dma drives.
The controll card is surpose to let the pc bios see the ata100/133 dma drives, but I need to figure out how to put the drivers in the pc, so the bios will see the drive.

[glc]

Please give us the exact model of this controller card, your motherboard, and hard drive you are trying to install. I'm a bit confused, and I think you may be also. The controller cards I've used have their own hard drive connectors and their own bios, they don't do anything to the main PC bios, drives connected to it will not be seen by the main bios. The controller's bios should give you a screen much like the main POST screen showing what drives are detected on it and a keystroke combination to get into its setup. A 98 setup disk should find the drive just fine.

The only reason to use a controller card is to overcome a bios drive SIZE limitation - an ATA66 controller will handle an ATA100 or 133 drive just fine, this is fully backwards and forwards compatible.

[oryx]

Sometimes you have to treat the pci controller as a scsi controller in the bios. Depends on the bios.

[glc]

Whether the boot order is set to SCSI or not, this does not affect recognition in any way. It only affects whether it will try to boot from the card's bios. We haven't reached that point yet, the drive has to be recognized first.