How to: Install more than 4 IDE drives A7V333??

[Guest]

Is it possible to install more than 4 IDE devices on an A7V333? It has 4 IDE
connectors on the mainboard, 2 for primary/secondary IDE and 2 for Promise 1
& 2.

I'd like to install the following but am running into problems:
1 30GB Deskstar Bootable
1 80GB Deskstar Data Only
1 CD-Rom
1 CD-R/W
1 100MB Zip Internal

 

[ByTor]

Is it possible to install more than 4 IDE devices on an A7V333? It has 4 IDE
connectors on the mainboard, 2 for primary/secondary IDE and 2 for Promise 1
& 2.

I'd like to install the following but am running into problems:
1 30GB Deskstar Bootable
1 80GB Deskstar Data Only
1 CD-Rom
1 CD-R/W
1 100MB Zip Internal

I would suggest buying a PCI "Promise" controller card (ATA133 if
possible). Leave your CD Reader on the MB & place your CD burner on the
Primary IDE of the Controller & the Zip100 on the Secondary of the
controller. I say this about the ZIP100 because it will have a tendancy
to drag down whatever may be connected to it, keep it seperate it will
be fine.
DO NOT BUY a Siig controller card unless you are only connecting CD-Roms
to it, most people do not know that it will screw up the disk order if
you are using Win2K or WinXP when connecting HD's to it. The "Promise"
cards DO NOT do this. I run multi-boots of OS's and was wondering one
day why I was having problems, I had a HD hooked to a Siig card & it
made it Disk0 & screwed with my boot manager. I'm not sure what you do
with your system but I figured I'd just throw that tid-bit of info in.

Good Luck!

 

[ByTor]

says... while attaching C4 explosives to computer and foaming at the
mouth!

I would suggest buying a PCI "Promise" controller card (ATA133 if
possible). Leave your CD Reader on the MB & place your CD burner on the
Primary IDE of the Controller & the Zip100 on the Secondary of the
controller. I say this about the ZIP100 because it will have a tendancy
to drag down whatever may be connected to it, keep it seperate it will
be fine.
DO NOT BUY a Siig controller card unless you are only connecting CD-Roms
to it, most people do not know that it will screw up the disk order if
you are using Win2K or WinXP when connecting HD's to it. The "Promise"
cards DO NOT do this. I run multi-boots of OS's and was wondering one
day why I was having problems, I had a HD hooked to a Siig card & it
made it Disk0 & screwed with my boot manager. I'm not sure what you do
with your system but I figured I'd just throw that tid-bit of info in.

Good Luck!

Oooops, my bad.....Did not realize you had the RAID controller on board.
Sorry, but I am not that familiar with how those respond to connections,
don't see why you can't connect anything though.

 

[Steve Thorpe]

The Promise controller only supports hard disks (unless you have put lumber
jack bios on it)

Have you enabled the promise controller ( jumper on the MB )

Your 30Gb driver should go on the promise primary controller .

Go into the promise bios and set up the controller - set to ATA
You'r not setting up any RAID arrays

Go into your main BIOS and set the boot order

Sorry I can't go into the details of the BIOS more as I'm at work.


What have you tried and what are the problems you have ran into?

Steve

 

[SexyBeast]

I would suggest buying a PCI "Promise" controller card (ATA133 if
possible). Leave your CD Reader on the MB & place your CD burner on the
Primary IDE of the Controller & the Zip100 on the Secondary of the
controller. I say this about the ZIP100 because it will have a tendancy
to drag down whatever may be connected to it, keep it seperate it will
be fine.
DO NOT BUY a Siig controller card unless you are only connecting CD-Roms
to it, most people do not know that it will screw up the disk order if
you are using Win2K or WinXP when connecting HD's to it. The "Promise"
cards DO NOT do this. I run multi-boots of OS's and was wondering one
day why I was having problems, I had a HD hooked to a Siig card & it
made it Disk0 & screwed with my boot manager. I'm not sure what you do
with your system but I figured I'd just throw that tid-bit of info in.

Good Luck!

There is also a hacked bios named lumberjack for this type of mobo.
It enables the full raid functions of the promise controller.
You also need the chip drivers from promise so you will be able to hook up
all kind of ide devices to the onboard raid connectors.

It has been mentioned before but i forgot where to get this, perhaps other
uses remember.

Kind regards,

SexyBeast

 

[SexyBeast]

The Promise controller only supports hard disks (unless you have put lumber
jack bios on it)

Have you enabled the promise controller ( jumper on the MB )

Your 30Gb driver should go on the promise primary controller .

Go into the promise bios and set up the controller - set to ATA
You'r not setting up any RAID arrays

Go into your main BIOS and set the boot order

Sorry I can't go into the details of the BIOS more as I'm at work.


What have you tried and what are the problems you have ran into?

Steve

Promise

just a few post below this there is a link for lumberjack info

http://translation.paralink.com/url...ettenfett.com/Workshop/Raidbasic/faq/faq.html

Sexy