ATA 133 Help

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Girish Verma

Hey guys i have a promise controller Ultra ATA 133 i just bought. I put that
into my PCI slot. Left my hard drive on my Motherboard controller.. fired up
WIN2003 Server....it recognized the device installed the driver. My bootable
drive is just an old ATA 66...so to IDE 1 on PCI Controller i attached my
Maxtor ATA 133...now when i boot up my computer it doesn't work....it just
brings up the Win2003 Server Screen and just hangs there for ever.. i can't
figure out what it is. Can neone help????
 
Hey guys i have a promise controller Ultra ATA 133 i just bought. I put that
into my PCI slot. Left my hard drive on my Motherboard controller.. fired up
WIN2003 Server....it recognized the device installed the driver. My bootable
drive is just an old ATA 66...so to IDE 1 on PCI Controller i attached my
Maxtor ATA 133...now when i boot up my computer it doesn't work....it just
brings up the Win2003 Server Screen and just hangs there for ever.. i can't
figure out what it is. Can neone help????
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Does the Controller card have it's own BIOS that you have to enter and
set boot orders etc?



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Do you have configured your motherboard's BIOS to use a boot drive
sequence with SCSI listed before an IDE hard drive? Since the
daughtercard IDE controller has its own BIOS, the motherboard's BIOS
probably will try to pass off the boot to that controller (which gets
handled as if it were a SCSI controller because that card has its own
BIOS).

Although the hard drive that was left on the motherboard's IDE port
might not be faster than the UltraDMA mode supported by it, is there a
reason why you didn't move all hard drives to the daughtercard IDE
controller after installing the driver for it in Windows? Even if you
change the motherboard's BIOS order to list an IDE hard drive before a
SCSI device, that means you must always boot from whatever hard drives
are on the motherboard's IDE ports and cannot boot from a faster drive
(now or later) on the daughtercard IDE controller. The motherboard's
BIOS will find the hard drive on its own IDE ports and use that for
bootup. Slide the hard drives over to the daughtercard IDE controller.
If you have just the 2 hard drives, put each on a separate IDE port (if
your IDE controller has 2 IDE ports) so they are on different channels.
Leave your CD-type drives back on the motherboard; they are supported by
device drivers and will not affect the physical volume order specified
in boot.ini for the hard drives attached to the IDE controller (if all
the hard drives are over there). You could then put each CD-type drive
on its own IDE port, too, so if you do CD-to-CDR[W] copying.
 
Hey guys i have a promise controller Ultra ATA 133 i just bought. I put that
into my PCI slot. Left my hard drive on my Motherboard controller.. fired up
WIN2003 Server....it recognized the device installed the driver. My bootable
drive is just an old ATA 66...so to IDE 1 on PCI Controller i attached my
Maxtor ATA 133...now when i boot up my computer it doesn't work....it just
brings up the Win2003 Server Screen and just hangs there for ever.. i can't
figure out what it is. Can neone help????
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Your computer will now boot from the Promise card. Your boot drive
needs to be on IDE1 there.


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