Promise Technology ULTRA 100 ATA

[Guest]

I have an Asus A7V motherboard. When I plug any component (cd drive or hard
drive into the ULTRA ATA 100 controllers the system will show the startup
logo and then freeze). I have the most current BIOS and drivers for these
components; as soon as I unplug the cd drive or plug the HD into the standard
IDE controller everything works fine.

 

[Vanguard]

I have an Asus A7V motherboard. When I plug any component (cd drive or
hard
drive into the ULTRA ATA 100 controllers the system will show the
startup
logo and then freeze). I have the most current BIOS and drivers for
these
components; as soon as I unplug the cd drive or plug the HD into the
standard
IDE controller everything works fine.

Did you configure your BIOS boot drive sequence to list the SCSI device
(after the floppy and CD-ROM drive but before any hard drive attached to
the IDE ports on the mobo)? Because the IDE controller card has its own
BIOS, it is treated like a BIOS controller so the system BIOS has to
pass control to the daughtercard's BIOS. Presumably you have already
installed the Promise drivers before you moved the drive from the IDE
mobo port to the Promise card.

If the CD-ROM and hard drive are both on the same port on the same cable
to the Promise card and removing the CD-ROM drive lets you boot from the
hard drive attached to that card then you have a configuration conflict
between those 2 drives. Maybe you have both configured as the master
drive, or both as the slave drive, or are trying to use cable select
(which I never use since it has proven flaky and depends on timing of
the latch circuits).

 

[Guest]

I will double check the configuration, however, when I had Windows ME
installed on the same system I never had a problem.

 

[Richard Urban]

And your operating system is?? There is a problem with Windows 2000 and
special steps must be taken.

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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Admiral Q]

I would suspect as Vanguard stated, you have the jumpers configured on the
IDE devices in a way they conflict with each other - acceptable methods:
1) One device on the said channel (0 or 1) configured as "MASTER".
2) One device on the said channel (0 or 1) configured as "SLAVE".
3) Both devices on the said channel (0 or 1) configured as "CSEL" aka cable
select.

Also note, on IDE controllers, the channel will only operate as fast as the
slowest device - so if you have a HD configured using UDMA4 and a CD drive
configured using UDMA2, then both devices will only operate at UDMA2 speeds.
This is why it is always recommended to put CD or DVD drives on a separate
channel from your hard drives.

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