DVD-RW with PCI card

[Bill]

Hello,
Hope someone can help,
I fitted a Q-Tec 330D UDMA 133 IDE PCI contrller card to
run a Pioneer 106 DVD-RW Drive,all seemed to go ok,it
installed with the drivers supplied with the card ,two
thing have happened to cause me concern,(1)I was told
that it would copy a DVD 4.7Gb in about 15 mins,it took
32mins 15 secs at 4x speed using Nero Burning 6,(2)When I
start my computer it go,s through a procedure like
this.First it shows SIL 0680 ATA/133Medley Raid
controller,BIOS Version 3.0.87,copyright (c0 1997-
2002,Silicon Image Inc,
Press F3 to enter raid utility,
searching for device X,
Primery channel,atfter about 10 secs itcarry,s on to list,
Primery channel:
Drive number 0 Pioneer DVD-RW
Drive number 1
Secondry channel:
Drive:2
Drive;3
then it go,s onto PCI listing,then verifying DMI pool
data,then it carry,s on to start windows xp home and
set,s up ok,
what I would like to know is there any way I can get it
NOT to show me all the information about the controller
card and primery,secondry channel,s,it used to juset up
very quickly,
hope someone can help,
thank you in advance for any information,
Bill.

 

[Willit]

I have the identical card and setup , but I have two hard
drives on the primary channel( drive 0 and drive 1 ) ,
that is for the booting. (1)The secondary channel is where
I have my cd-r and dvd. Well the speed depends on more
that just the card, I would look at what you have running
sharing resources. (2) You have the cart pulling the
horse. Boot from the primary channel. The card works well
and for $33.95 it works well.

 

[Bill]

Thanks for replying Willit,
I am running xp home sp1,2500+amd processor,GeForce3
Graphics card
1 120HDD
1 60HDD
1CD-RW
1DVD-ROM
That is why I fitted the UDMA card,I am a bit green when
it comes to computer setup,I assume you mean in the BIOS
when you talk about primary channel (drive 0 and drive 1)
but I,m abit lost how to go about it,I would be very
grateful if you or anyone else could explain it a bit
clearer,sorry to trouble you,again thanks,
Bill.

 

[Willit]

Your card is all you need. The ide on your mother board is
not needed. Your raid board has a blue connector (primary)
and a white ( secondary ). Your hard drive cable go's to
the blue and your burner cable go on the white. Set the
jumpers on the drives to master and slave or cable select.
( ( probably already done) just change the cables to the
card.

This will cut a step out of the boot sequence. The card is
recognized as a SCSI card by XP.

The board BIOS ( raid card ) has to give you enough time
to push F3 to enter the raid setup.

 

[Bill]

To Willit,
Thanks a lot, I think I can follow your instruction now,I
will try as you say,
thanks again,
Bill.