ABIT KT7A Raid

[jhieger]

Folks,

I have a single 30GB maxtor drive. First, do I have to have it on IDE 3 or 4 to use ATA100? I thought that was only true of the KT7. Second, I'm trying to dual boot 98 and Win2k. Win2k will give me a stop error if I boot it on IDE3. I have an internal SyQuest a burner and a cdrom. I'd love to put each of them on their own IDE. I bought this board so I could have up to 8 devices. I'm not planning on using raid yet. Maybe next year. I still need more hard drives. Do I have to install the HPT (spelling) controller if I'm not using raid to be able to use the other two IDEs? The manual says not to use removable media(Syquest) on the raid controllers. I have my maxtor on IDE 1, burner and cdrom share IDE 2. I can't put syquest on the back 2 and I can't put my hard drive there either or it won't boot into 2000. Any ideas? Thanks for any help in advance.

 

[jimmygates]

You don't have to connect harddrives to the RAID controller to benefit from ATA-100. The KT7A uses the newer KT133A North Bridge and 686B South Bridge chip. The KT133A North Bridge allows you to run your CPU FSB ad 133mhz (for cpu's that support it) and the 686B South Bridge has built in ATA-100 support.


Also, Win2k halts you during installation because it doesn't reconize the HPT RAID controller. During installation, press F8(?) to install SCSI drivers. Then insert the HPT driver disk that came with the motherboard. It should install the neccessay drivers for it and continue the Installation process.






-jimbo