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I have an old PC I would like to use for Spinrite hard rive repair. The PC is a Dell Optiplex GX1. This is approx Pentium 1 class PC with 128MB memory, and built in IDE controller, made around 2000. If I install a PCI SATA controller, will the BIOS recognize any SATA drives I connect? Spinrite is a DOS program, (FreeDOS to be specific). | ||||
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The question is if it will recognize your PCI SATA controller. If it does, than any SATA hdd will work. Usually you should have no problem, but there is no 100% guarantee it will work. If you have the chance, try it with a PCI SATA controller first and than by a similar model. | |||
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The most important question is; is your SATA controller card PCI, or PCI-Express? Similarly, are the ports in your computer PCI, or PCI-Express? (Most likely, they are all standard PCI). Provided that you have a PCI card and PCI ports, there is no reason for the card not to work in the computer, as PCI is backwards compatible across all of its versions. Provided that you can supply drivers for the SATA controller, the drives connected should be accessible (unless I'm mistaken, the lack of SATA support in BIOS will not affect you). | |||
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