SiiG Ultra ATA133 controller

[Denudo]

Hi all, any ideas on this would be great :

I have just installed a Siig Ultra ATA133 controller card into my old system
to make use of my 200gb Maxtor hard drive. I have been using the full 200gb
before, but losing data after 137Gb. So I thought it was time to put in the
proper controller.

However,

After install on Win2k, all went fine, drivers seem ok in Device manger, no
probs, only thing is, I cant see the drive in Win 2k.
Fdisk finds it fine, but I cant use it.
Partition Magic 6 wont load with it plugged in either. Error 100, bad
partition.

I have tried other dirves in the 133 card, but same result.

I have also tried booting with the main drive in the 133 card, and it fails
about 2/3 loading in, with "no boot device available".

I have disabled IDE on brd, and tried to load drivers in repair mode of win
2k. But no differeence

many suggestions would help

Thanks

Nic

 

[Brian Smither]

I'm sorry I didn't make more accurate notes, but I had the same essential
problem. The SiiG unit didn't want to work on my motherboard anyway -
wanted resources the motherboard wasn't capable of giving. Then I went to
the Promise Ultra 133 TX2 board. It, too gave me all kinds of grief but I
finally managed to get it to work.

I'm sorry to say that I don't recall *precisely* what I did. I have a
strong but vague recollection it involved the "FDISK /MBR" command. Once
that was done (or whatever it was that I actually did), it worked fine.
However, moving the drive back to the motherboard's IDE connectors also
required that I again do the same thing when moving the drives off the
motherboard.

But that was *my* motherboard and *my* drive that was already formatted.
YMMV.

I assume you followed the instructions about installing the driver into the
Win2K system, rebooting, and then verifying it's installation *before*
moving the hard drive off the motherboard and onto the PCI controller card?

Brian Smither
Smither Consulting