Sarkazztic, This is interesting. Wonder why.
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ok I am going to buy the promise ata100 card I can get it for 23.00 after price matching with staples.... If it installs with no problems all is well in the world....if not I will be looking for a new motherboard....looking for suggestions....I have the athlon 1.2ghz 200mhz FSB so it has to be compatible with that and preferably also work with the future 1.5ghz chip...I will be needing to attach my dvd drive and cd burner as well as 2 hard drives and an atapi zip drive... so if we can find a board that will support up to 8 ide devices that will be great....I am looking forward to your suggestions.
Make the new ata100 card a Siig [what bistro posted] instead of the promise brand.
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what about the maxtor brand ata100 card....I can get it for about the same as I can get the siig ultra 66 card.....can you use the siig card without connecting a hard drive to it? could I put my cd burner and my zip drive on on 1 channel of it....and maybe just put one hard drive on the 2nd channel of the card?
I have two hd's on two ATA mobo connectors. CD-ROM and CD burner on the other two IDE connections. (All devices on their own channel). The Zip drive is on the Siig card. Works out very well. The system boots up, then the card is recognized and the card's BIOS picks up the Zip attached. Total about a 30 second boot to Windows.
Bistro I am having a dense day today....are you saying you have 4 ide plugs on your mobo and you have a hard drive going to each of the first two and a cdrom device going to each of the 2nd 2 or do you have 2 plugs and have the 2 hard drives master/slave and the 2 cd devices M/s on the other channel? and most importantly are you saying you have that zip drive hooked to the siig all by itself? is your siig card the ata100 or the ata66? sorry to be so dense today.
Maxtor is a renamed Promise card.
Try the SIIG that bistro is talking about different drivers. Nothing to do with the highpoint we are fighting.
He has a hd as master on each ATA channel on the motherboard.
cdrom is master on primary IDE
cdrw is master on secondary IDE
zip is on siig card.
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[This message has been edited by Train (edited 10-11-2001).]
I have found the siig in both ata66 and ata100 at best buy 39.99 for the 100 and 29.99 for the 66. I am really curious as to why you can hook an atapi drive directly to the siig and with the promise you HAVE to have a hard drive connected to it.
'kaz,
What "scsi type" cards have you had trouble with - regular SCSI cards, or ATA/raid cards? I have 2 x Abit VP6 (VIA 694X) running wich have both accepted 3 or 4 different regular SCSI controller cards - never a problem. Might it be strictly related to one or a few type VIA boards or controller cards?
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I have only had experience with 1 real scsi card that was included in an iomega buz pack and the ultra66 pci faux "scsi" and the iomega card was in the pvk7 board I have and it did not install correctly I put it in my old HP pavillion with intel chipset and it worked just fine.....I then tried moved to this ultra card which I have not tried in the pvk7 but I am going to try it tonight for the sake of science....I am going to see if I can borrow the Iomega buz from work to see if it will install in my ecs k7vza.
[This message has been edited by sarrkazztic (edited 10-11-2001).]
Train has been in my house....how'd you do that??? https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
He had a key? https://discussions.virtualdr.com/ https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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Backdoor was wide open. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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'Bout time I fixed that door...and put a lock on the computer....
But, yea verily, my mobo has 4 connectors--2x ATA, 2x IDE. The Zip is on the primary of two connectors on the card (Siig ATA 66).
Save your money on the computer lock.
Definately might to invest in a closer for the door. Heat is expensive, procudes favored purchases https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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