2 HDDs on a Abit BE6-II -- HELP PLEASE

[thebullseye]

If I want to hook up two hard drives to my BE6-II, and boot from the UDMA-66 controller, how do I go about hooking up the drives? Do they both go on the same cable in a master-slave relationship even though one is not UDMA-66 compatible? Can I hook one up to the UDMA-33 and still boot to the UDMA-66?

Thanks in Advance.

 

[Ulysses]

I'd make your ATA/66 boot drive the master on the primary ATA/66 channel, i.e., at the end of the 80-wire cable connected to the white connecter closest to the edge of the board.

If one of the drives is ATA/66 and the other is not, then they must be on different type connectors (i.e., all ATA/33 devices to the dark connecters and all ATA/66 to the white). Any devices on the ATA/66 channel must be ATA/66 capable and must be ATA/66 'enabled.' You must use an 80- wire cable with the ATA/66 drives on that channel also (an 80 wire cable can also be used with ATA/33 or ATA/100), or they'll revert to ATA/33. You can use a 40-wire cable only with ATA/33 devices.

When in doubt, RTM.

 

[dvch]

Ulysses I thought it was "RTFH"!? Oh well live and learn.

 

[hanginon]

Yes you can put your UDMA66 drive and the UDMA33 drive both on the Highpoint controller and set the boot order in the bios to UDMA66 and it will boot from the drive on the Highpoint controller that has your operating system.
I would recommend not putting both drives on the same cable because the slower drive will probably slow the other one down. You may also put one drive on one of the regular IDE ports, UDMA33, and the the other on the Highpoint controller, UDMA66. As long as you specify the proper boot seqence in the bios.
I would also have to warn that I have had nothing but trouble with the highpoint controller when the system fsb is set to 133. I have used a maxtor 7200 rpm UDMA66 H/D, IBM 7200 rpm UDMA H/D, Fujitsu 7200 rpm UDMA66 H/D and Seagate 7200 rpm UDMA66 H/D and the Seagate is the only one that will boot and run with a 133 fsb.