HD required on primary mobo IDE channel?

[Papageno]

O Great Motherboard Gurus!

I have an A7N8X Deluxe, and currently have a dual boot system: Win 98
on a 60GB Maxtor connected to the primary IDE channel on the
motherboard, and a 160GB HDD connected to an IDE channel on a Promise
add-on PCI card.

If I get a big-a** HDD to replace the 60GB drive, say a 200GB, then
Win98 won't see it if connected to the mainboard, but it will if I
connect it to the Promise PCI card.

So basically, will my computer work fine if I buy a new big drive like
that, transfer the current Win98SE FAT32 partition to a similar one on
the new drive, reserve the rest for NTFS space, and connect the new
drive to the add-on Promise card? That would leave nothing but optical
drives hooked up to the mainboard--would that be all right?

Many thanks in advance for any replies.

 

[Centurion]

So basically, will my computer work fine if I buy a new big drive like
that, transfer the current Win98SE FAT32 partition to a similar one on
the new drive, reserve the rest for NTFS space, and connect the new
drive to the add-on Promise card? That would leave nothing but optical
drives hooked up to the mainboard--would that be all right?

Provided you set your boot order in the BIOS correctly there's no reason it
shouldn't. My old A7V (classic) only had optical drives on the ATA66
controller, and my big ATA100 hard drives on the Promise controller. Set
the boot order to "SCSI then ATA" (IIRC) and voila.

James

 

[Gert B. Frob]

O Great Motherboard Gurus!

I have an A7N8X Deluxe, and currently have a dual boot system: Win 98
on a 60GB Maxtor connected to the primary IDE channel on the
motherboard, and a 160GB HDD connected to an IDE channel on a Promise
add-on PCI card.

If I get a big-a** HDD to replace the 60GB drive, say a 200GB, then
Win98 won't see it if connected to the mainboard, but it will if I
connect it to the Promise PCI card.

So basically, will my computer work fine if I buy a new big drive like
that, transfer the current Win98SE FAT32 partition to a similar one on
the new drive, reserve the rest for NTFS space, and connect the new
drive to the add-on Promise card? That would leave nothing but optical
drives hooked up to the mainboard--would that be all right?

Many thanks in advance for any replies.

By the way, WIN98 will not be able to "see" NTFS partitions.