A7V333 & pure UDMA

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Nig

Hi

I have flashed my bios to give me pure UDMA on the raid channels. On boot up
the Promise Raid driver finds the drive I have attached, which it describes
as D0 WD80....udma5 & gives the message:-
IDE Bus Master Enabled.

However, once the machine boots into Windows (XP Pro) I can neither find the
drive in explorer or device manager! I've tried searching for new hardware -
but no luck.

Any ideas gratefully received.

Cheers

Nig
 
Nig said:
Hi

I have flashed my bios to give me pure UDMA on the raid channels. On boot up
the Promise Raid driver finds the drive I have attached, which it describes
as D0 WD80....udma5 & gives the message:-
IDE Bus Master Enabled.

However, once the machine boots into Windows (XP Pro) I can neither find the
drive in explorer or device manager! I've tried searching for new hardware -
but no luck.
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Can you find it in "disk management"? Is it patitioned? Is the Promise
driver loaded, you might need a special version of the driver, don´t know.
 
Hi

Thanks for your suggestions but I've still drawn a blank so far, any other
Ideas welcome. I hope it doesn't mean I'm gonna have to re-install XP to
make it see the drive(s).

Cheers

Nig
 
I'm assuming you are using something like the hacked bios from
Lumberjacker. If so, you must also use the hacked driver.
 
Can you find it in "disk management"? Is it patitioned? Is the Promise
driver loaded, you might need a special version of the driver, don´t know.
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You need to install the right driver for that bio's....read the details if you
got the udma bios from Lumberjack...

http://lumberjacker.kettenfett.com/ go to the driver section

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You need to install the right driver for that bio's....read the details if you
got the udma bios from Lumberjack...

http://lumberjacker.kettenfett.com/ go to the driver section
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U200b42 = DriverVer=03/28/2003, 2.0.0.42
PUL200b29 = DriverVer=12/20/2001, 2.00.1.29 PURE-UDMA ONLY !!!
- contains two sets of this driver revision

if you`re using a pure-udma bios you HAVE to use one of these drivers.
the genuine promise ones will not work properly !! latest revision is
recommended. If any problems appear, try using PUL200b29 !


"De Oppresso Liber"
From Oppression Liberate

jroc® 7th Special Forces Ft.Bragg N.C 18/Bravo
****only thing easy in life is failure****
*******so get tough*******
 
Thanks for all your suggestions, I've tried all to no avail, I even re
loaded win XP making sure I installed the promise raid drivers. I've given
up now & ordered a PCI IDE controller card which will let me install another
4 drives.

Cheers

Nig
 
Isabelle Cormier said:
Thanks for all your suggestions, I've tried all to no avail, I even re
loaded win XP making sure I installed the promise raid drivers. I've given
up now & ordered a PCI IDE controller card which will let me install another
4 drives.
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Strange, I guess people did manage to get it right with the Lumberjacker
BIOS combined with a hacked driver.
In any circumstance you should be able to fool the BIOS if you, with
original Asus BIOS, try to set up a RAID-0 with only one drive. I´ve heard
of people being lycky that way, but don´t know if this applies for the
A7V333.
 
Well for one...the drivers at lumberjack are not hacked...they are the fully
UDMA drivers and not the Lite....and she can't use a UDMA bios...with a Raid
Driver...two totally different setups.....I posted a link to Lumberjacks to get
the right controller driver to have UDMA....I've got a A7V333 and Four Maxtors
ATA 133 on the Second Set of IDE's....configured UDMA 6.
Strange, I guess people did manage to get it right with the Lumberjacker
BIOS combined with a hacked driver.
In any circumstance you should be able to fool the BIOS if you, with
original Asus BIOS, try to set up a RAID-0 with only one drive. I´ve heard
of people being lycky that way, but don´t know if this applies for the
A7V333.
Click to expand...

"De Oppresso Liber"
From Oppression Liberate

jroc® 7th Special Forces Ft.Bragg N.C 18/Bravo
****only thing easy in life is failure****
*******so get tough*******
 
Well for one...the drivers at lumberjack are not hacked...they are the fully
UDMA drivers and not the Lite
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OK, the BIOS is modified, though, with modbin or whatever he has used. Not
the driver. I see.

.....and she can't use a UDMA bios...with a Raid
Driver...two totally different setups.....I posted a link to Lumberjacks to get
the right controller driver to have UDMA....I've got a A7V333 and Four Maxtors
ATA 133 on the Second Set of IDE's....configured UDMA 6.
Click to expand...

That´s what I thought as well, it should not be necessary to buy a new
controller.
 
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