XPPro - Promise Controller - HDD

[JohnB]

XP PRO was installed on a WD 13GB HDD, while the drive was connected to
an onboard controller. I loaded the Promise drivers, and moved the drive
to an Ultra133 TX2 Promise controller. The drive is shown in MODE 4 in
the controller BIOS. As soon as XP begins booting, the drive begins to
clunk, and clunks continuously. The OS is super slow-it could be the
drive is being turned off and on as it clunks.

Win98 boots absolutely fine on a separate partition on this drive.

To install XP Pro, I used partition magic to prepare for a new OS. I
believe I had the identical problem when installing XP on a clean drive
also.

I have tried Promise drivers .29, .39, .43, and the controller has
its latest BIOS.

There are similar posts about this, see

"Promise controller damages Maxtor hard drive (?)"
in group:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

but I don't see any solution.

Thanks,

John

 

[Guest]

A 13GB WD HD,must be ancient,WD hasnt made any drives less than 40GB in
the last few years.To install the controller you should use the F6 option
before
installing xp(boot to xp cd).Also,if the promise controller gives that much
trouble
why not go back to onboard,WD drives(when new) can only run at ATA100,
only maxtors use the 133.

 

[JohnB]

A 13GB WD HD,must be ancient,WD hasnt made any drives less than 40GB in
the last few years.To install the controller you should use the F6 option
before
installing xp(boot to xp cd).Also,if the promise controller gives that much
trouble
why not go back to onboard,WD drives(when new) can only run at ATA100,
only maxtors use the 133.

Ancient is not bad. If you check my post, another user had the

identical problem with an 80GB drive. Also, if you check the
instructions, XP PRO requires 1.5GB of hard drive space, not 40, or 80.

The controller is backward compatible to 100,66,33.

This is a test to see if XP will run on my system, that is why I have to
get the drive working on the controller. My main drive is large,
and isn't recognized fully on the onboard controller. That is why
finding out how to get XP to work on the controller is important.

john

 

[JohnB]

A 13GB WD HD,must be ancient,WD hasnt made any drives less than 40GB in
the last few years.To install the controller you should use the F6 option
before

Is moving a drive from onboard to plug-in controller a specific problem
with XP? You may be onto something here. That could be it-it can't
handle the switch.

john