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Hear ye Hear YE Sarrkazztic has defeated the deamons of highpointe.
Since I am not a quitter....I decided to try one more experiment with the ultra66 pci card...for those of you that have not been with us for the duration....I bought this card and could not get it to work for anything....I tried it in other machines no go....another member DrMdJ suggested that I flash the cards bios with the FASTRAK66 RAID bios to see what happens I did that and it still did not work...so I was about to give up and buy the ata100 siig card that bistro raves about when I decided one last time lets try this card starting in the PVK7 board that my wife uses...it would install with no splats but the drive was not detected in my computer....so I put it back into the test/gaming machine that I just built...it worked just fine....so then I decided lets try it in the Athlon machine that I bought it for...installed big splat in device manager....bummer...so I looked into what was sharing the IRQ to see if I could fix it....it was sharing with the video card so I reboot and go into bios and uncheck the assign irg to vga and reboot then uninstall the card then reinstall and reboot. NO SPLAT and the drive is detected all is well....everything works great...I just have to purchase another ata66/100 cable to connect the hard drive to it...I currently only have ata33 on it but its working https://discussions.virtualdr.com/ https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
someone told me that even tho this drive is ata100 I should not notice that much of a performance hit at ata66 because you hardly ever truly reach that level on an ata100 drive is this true? even tho stand and rejoice because we are starting to win the battle and maybe the rest of us together we can win the war for GreenGoose1 and all other residents of Vdr land.....(prime rib dinner for celebration gotta run.)
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WHOO-HOO! Very good! https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
*Geez...should I tell him that when you do that, it will destroy the mobo circuits within 30 days?.....naaaaah. Let him enjoy it while he can...
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bistro please tell me you are joking...
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yah ain't but across the river from arlington. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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Here I am win I should be enjoying my triumph and all I can do is fight the sick feeling in my stomach because bistro has me on the virge of losing my prime rib dinner....the nerves are killing me.
Geez...should I tell him that when you do that, it will destroy the mobo circuits within 30 days?.....naaaaah. Let him enjoy it while he can...
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ummm...I happened on this post and would like to add that I have a Promise FastTrak 100 card (IDE RAID Controller) and wanted to let some of you know that if your MB supports UDMA100, the just stick with that...
I bought my card because I thought it would speed things up a bit, when it didn't do that much...so now I'm selling it...
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Lol.......heck with them sarrkazztic! I'll do the *giddy dance* with ya!
I'll never smell it fry from here anyhow! https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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THE SMOKE ON THE HORIZON SAID
"chief, what happened?"
Chief went ashen, because he knew it would be pointless to try get to the horizon, and explain.
izz good thing Arthur Dent was there...
Chief was blissfully unaware of THAT, tho.
Guess we'll never know why "they" asked, "chief, what happened?"
One wonders why we have this saying
"fish don't speak"
Well, they never explained about the fish, did they?
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For what it's worth, I personally have never had a problem with the Promise Ultra 100s, VIA chipset or not. But ya really don't want it (or any other controller card) sharing an IRQ. Being a bus mastering device, and of the nature it is, it is something that really needs to be on it's own.
As for the Ultra66 vs Ultra100 (since it was me who said it wouldn't matter in the first place), here's the point. The current state of hard drive technology (let alone cd, dvd, cdrw zip) is such that on any sort of sustained basis they just can't read/write data fast enough to take advantage of (potential) ata100 speeds. Drives generally aren't even going to max out with ATA66 on any sustained basis. All else being equal, the only time drives are going to hit the ata100 levels is if the data resides in the hard drive's onboard cache. And such is not often the case. And when you talk about multitasking, read/write access patterns, channel sharing, device contention, etc, etc, these factors only serve to slow things down even more and make ATA100 capabilities less important. Remember, the ata100/ata66 capabilities has to do with "maximum burst" transfer capabilities. It is not the sustained or continuous speeds that are being talked about (or guarenteed).
ATA66 over ATA33 (or less) is significant, as drives can on a fairly regular basis exceed the ata33 speeds. Still it does depend on what apps one runs (etc), but...
And spindle speed matters a lot. Here you are dealing with something directly related to the drives ability to fetch and store data off/on it's platters. You will benefit far more from having a 7200 rpm drive over a 5400rpm drive than an ata100 drive over an ata66.
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This is a good morning to you All, Good going Sarkazztic. Great. Wake Train up. I hope you have recorded notes in great detail for this neophyte.
Ok, prime rib - good choice. Now a wine ? I think dry would do. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/ https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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GG1, What no weather conditions report today?
Lost in the fog over here. https://discussions.virtualdr.com/
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I can not get to the irq business in BIOS can you?
Doubt it with the compaq.
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Hi opovet, clear and 47 here.
Dunno Train. Have to check when I get home.
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