Maxtor UltraATA Card as SCSI/RAID Controller

[TEC]

I have a Maxtor UltraATA-133 card in my machine, running XP Home. The
card worked well for a while, then I had a major system meltdown,
after which the card doesn't work. I think that XP recognized the
card as a WAN Miniport before, and now sees it as a SCSI/RAID
controller. Problem is that my BIOS doesn't provide an option to boot
from a SCSI device, making the card useless (and leaving me with w ATA
drives running as slow as molasses through the motherboard's non-ATA
connection).

Has anyone else run into this problem? Any thoughts on how to resolve
it? BIOS upgrade isn't an option (no upgrade is available).

Thanks.

 

[Rich Barry]

Did you try installing the drivers?
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/atadrvr.htm

 

[Nik Simpson]

I have a Maxtor UltraATA-133 card in my machine, running XP Home. The
card worked well for a while, then I had a major system meltdown,
after which the card doesn't work. I think that XP recognized the
card as a WAN Miniport before, and now sees it as a SCSI/RAID
controller. Problem is that my BIOS doesn't provide an option to boot
from a SCSI device, making the card useless (and leaving me with w ATA
drives running as slow as molasses through the motherboard's non-ATA
connection).

I think your memory is failing (yours, not the computers.) there is no way
that a disk controller would be recognized as a WAN-Miniport device, WAN
stands for "Wide Area Network." Under normal (i.e. functioning) conditions,
the Maxtor card should show up under the "SCSI and RAID" category because of
the way the PCI disk controller device drivers are grouped underneath the
SCSI-miniport driver in NT/2K/XP systems, so what you are seeing is
perfectly correct.

Has anyone else run into this problem? Any thoughts on how to resolve
it? BIOS upgrade isn't an option (no upgrade is available).

Just what is the problem, does the machine not work in some way?

 

[TEC]

This card, and these drives, have worked in this computer in the past
(and yes, I did install the drivers). Not having the ability to boot
from SCSI/RAID devices due to an old, un-upgradeable BIOS, this
machine DID boot to these drives. It's not the card (I have two, and
neither work). In the past, under Control Panel/ System/ Hardware/
Device Manager, I have had an entry as a WAN Miniport in the past;
opening it, the only item under it is the ATA controller. This has
been documented in other newsgroups as happening with this card,
according to a Google search.

The problem is that I have higher access speed hard drives that now
work very, VERY slowly, due to the lack of access via the ATA card,
and I want to see if there is a way to force the computer to see the
ATA card as a WAN miniport, as it has in the past (and has worked),
rather than as a SCSI/RAID controller, which doesn't allow the system
to boot from these drives.