Hello! I have an Asus A7V motherboard with an onboard
ATA100 promise controller (2 slots), as well as an onboard
IDE controller (2 slots also). I have two hard drives and
two DVD drives connected to the primary and secondary IDE
channels with no problems. I have added a third hard
drive to the system and have attached it via the
appropriate (80 pin I believe?) cable to the ATA100
controller. This drive is detected during boot, but W2K
does not see this drive. My question is two fold: Is
this simultaneous usage of the IDE channels and the ATA
controller possible in the first place, and if so, how do
I get W2K to see the third hard drive on the ATA
controller? Thanks for your help!

Jon

You'll need to add the manufacturer's controller driver through Device
Manger
Control Panel|Add New Hardware

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect.

"QMOBC943" wrote:
| Hello! I have an Asus A7V motherboard with an onboard
| ATA100 promise controller (2 slots), as well as an onboard
| IDE controller (2 slots also). I have two hard drives and
| two DVD drives connected to the primary and secondary IDE
| channels with no problems. I have added a third hard
| drive to the system and have attached it via the
| appropriate (80 pin I believe?) cable to the ATA100
| controller. This drive is detected during boot, but W2K
| does not see this drive. My question is two fold: Is
| this simultaneous usage of the IDE channels and the ATA
| controller possible in the first place, and if so, how do
| I get W2K to see the third hard drive on the ATA
| controller? Thanks for your help!
|
| Jon

Thank you very much Dave! That worked.

Happy Holidays!

Jon
>-----Original Message-----
>You'll need to add the manufacturer's controller driver
through Device
>Manger
>Control Panel|Add New Hardware
>
>--
>Regards,
>
>Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in
newsgroup.
>Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
>http://www.microsoft.com/protect.
>
>"QMOBC943" wrote:
>| Hello! I have an Asus A7V motherboard with an onboard
>| ATA100 promise controller (2 slots), as well as an
onboard
>| IDE controller (2 slots also). I have two hard drives
and
>| two DVD drives connected to the primary and secondary
IDE
>| channels with no problems. I have added a third hard
>| drive to the system and have attached it via the
>| appropriate (80 pin I believe?) cable to the ATA100
>| controller. This drive is detected during boot, but W2K
>| does not see this drive. My question is two fold: Is
>| this simultaneous usage of the IDE channels and the ATA
>| controller possible in the first place, and if so, how
do
>| I get W2K to see the third hard drive on the ATA
>| controller? Thanks for your help!
>|
>| Jon
>
>
>.
>

Glad to hear it. Thanks for the feedback.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect.

"QMOBC943" wrote:
| Thank you very much Dave! That worked.
|
| Happy Holidays!