Can we get the SATA300 TX2 Plus Controller Card to support 98SE ?

[Rick Chauvin]

Can we get the SATA300 TX2 Plus Controller Card to support 98SE ?

...at least the for the ones which have the appropriate 865/875/915 chipsets?

Don't tease me about still booting to W98SE since afterall MDGx needs

testers for his stuff here.

I really want to get this Promise SATA300 TX2 Plus Controller Card

http://www.promise.com/product/product_det...;product_id=138

..but I can't find driver support for W98SE darn it.. ..which surly has to exist somewhere? ..wishful thinking maybe.

AFAICT though the Promise SATA150 TX2plus is the last that supports W98SE and has the same 2 SATA 3Gb/s Ports plus 1 Ultra ATA/133 Port ability that I would specifically want for my needs

I currently run a Promise Ultra133 TX2 on 300 GB PATA HD's triple booting to W98SE/W2K/WXP.

Going forward for a pair of new 500 GB SATA HD's I need to find drivers for the SATA300 TX2Plus CC linked above to be able to still run W98SE on!

Now there are some of these common online driver webpages that list a 'combination driver' from Promise that supports the newer SATAII 150 TX series as well as the SATA300 TX2 Plus CC - and says for OS's that it does support 98, but me thinks it's just a misprint - here's just one of a few places that shows W98 supported:

http://www.driverzone.com/device.php?id=60663

...and that page download button drivers link brings me to this Promise website download:

http://www.promise.com/support/download/do...;os=0&go=GO ..and click the first link which has a link to the driver file "SATA300/SATAII150 TX series Windows Driver" that the other websites says is for W98 - but the Promise website does not say that.. ..however downloading it and looking at the ulsata2.inf file in the i386 folder shows me that there are W98 listings (even though it's standard remark'd ; out for description sake) Look for these lines of reference in various places:

________________________________

;[DriverFiles_9X]

-----------------------------

;; Win9x install sections

;;

;[ultra575PCI]

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;[WIN98.REG]

;HKR,,PortDriver,,98DriverName.mpd

________________________________

What concerns me though is the first 9x listing is blank underneath it - whereas W2K WXP has the sys driver assigned like this:

[DriverFiles_XP]

ulsata2.sys,,,0x20

...and so since we know that W98SE drivers for promise CC's use the ultra.mpd, Pu66vsd.vxd, and Smartvsd.vxd for its driver setup, whereas 2K/XP just use the ulsata2.sys and the W98 drivers are not included anymore, however since we can see 9x listed in its install inf leads me to believe it was supported...? ...and so makes me wonder since we know that the chipsets 865/875 officially support 98SE/2K/XP and many of us in MSFN's own W98SE group run W98SE with those MB's chipsets, and those same chipsets are supported in 2K/XP using the SATA300 TX2 Plus CC's ..then maybe it would still support W98SE somehow? ..but maybe Promise didn't want to deal with saying it supported the few chipsets for w98 and left out the many? Wishful thinking no doubt.

Any experienced ideas how to incorporate W98SE drivers into the SATA300 TX2 Plus Controller Card driver files to also support 98SE ?