WD 40gig HD on second channel of UltraATA 133pci controller not given a letter in Windows 98se

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Walker

I have a Silicon Image UltraATA 133 PCI controller card. It has one
WD 40gig HD installed as master in first connector. Works fine.
I installed a second HD as master in the second connector. The
controller sees it during the bootup period. It has been formatted as
FAT32.

Windows Device manager shows it in the hard drive list but doesn't
give it a letter. so it doesn't show up in Explorer. There are no
conflicts, No yellow !. before the ata controller list. Properties
of the drive show it working correctly.

In the control panel the UltraATA controller shows both 40 gig HDs
It shows the device location as Secondary channel, Master Device
Shows correct Type, Model, firmware revision, SN, ata verson, etc.

What would be the most likely reason that windows doesn't give it a
drive letter. TIA
Walker1940
 
whats on the drive?
do you have tweakUI nstalled?
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Do you have the correct driver for the card ?
Are the jumpers on the drive set correctly ?
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JAD
The drive is empty. Just formatted. However Windows should still
recognize the drive and give it a letter even if it wasn't formatted.
(I think) : )
I have TweakUI installed. All the drive letters up to T are checked.
My CD player and burner are using M and N. The other HD's are using
C,D ( both on Motherboard) and E.(40gig on UltraATA card) and G a
virtual HD.

JOE
The driver I am using for the first HD (40gig) is the one I used for
the second.
The HD is setup for master. So no jumpers are installed.

Looking at the device manager selection in the SCSI controlers
this is what is listed.

AXVSCSI controller <-- a virtual drive using Alcohol 120. (letter G)
Highpoint Technology Inc. HPT366 Ultra DMA 66 controller <-disabled
-on Abit BE-6 motherboard. Flaky thats why I went to
- anothe card.
Highpoint Technology Inc HPT366 Ultra DMA 66 controller <-disabled
Silicon Image Sil 0680 ATA/133 Controller

I had thought that when I installed the second drive I would have
gotten another listing of the Silicon Image controller in the above
list. Similar to the two listing of the Highpoint controllers. I
didn't and Silicon Images web site didn't provide any information and
all the manual has is installation of one HD.

Thanks to both of you for the replies.
Walker1940
 
I have a Silicon Image UltraATA 133 PCI controller card. It has one
WD 40gig HD installed as master in first connector. Works fine.
I installed a second HD as master in the second connector. The
controller sees it during the bootup period. It has been formatted as
FAT32.

Windows Device manager shows it in the hard drive list but doesn't
give it a letter. so it doesn't show up in Explorer. There are no
conflicts, No yellow !. before the ata controller list. Properties
of the drive show it working correctly.

In the control panel the UltraATA controller shows both 40 gig HDs
It shows the device location as Secondary channel, Master Device
Shows correct Type, Model, firmware revision, SN, ata verson, etc.

What would be the most likely reason that windows doesn't give it a
drive letter. TIA
Walker1940
Click to expand...

From a win98 boot floppy issue the command
fdisk /mbr
to reset the Master Boot record and then boot to Safemode and remove
ALL entries under the hard drive section and re-boot.Should you
encounter any problems you can reset the changes from an F8
bootup/command prompt only scanreg/restore .cab file registry backups.
HTH :)



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if the WD is the only device on the secondary channel then the jumper should
be removed. You only set a WD as master is there is another device
connected on the same cable.
 
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