ATA Controller card - is this correct?

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WEll it came with a floppy and all, but when i install the hard drive, what do i mrk on the hdd? slave, master or cable select? also any other info would be nice since this is my first time using a controller
 

sohcrates

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first of all, what controller card???

Secondly, they are usually just like onboard IDE controllers....if you have one drive make it a master. they most likely aren't cable select
 
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uhh i have a controller card installed. do i select cable select on the hdd, i already have a primary and slave hdd, this wil lbe the third hdd. which setting you thinkg?
 

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<< uhh i have a controller card installed. do i select cable select on the hdd, i already have a primary and slave hdd, this wil lbe the third hdd. which setting you thinkg? >>



well, you have a primary and a secondary controller on that card. i assume you have master and slave set up on the primary controller.

so now if you're adding a third drive you would make it master on the secondary controller.
 

cutty

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When you are placing jumper setting for your HD, it has nothing to do with where you connect the cable to, motherboard or an ATA-card. For every cable, if there is only one HD, then it's master, if there are two, one is master and one is slave, that's it.
 

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<< ok not i have it all connected. how do i get windows to a) recognize the drive b) format it et al?

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what version of windows are you running? is this drive just for extra storage or are you trying to make this new controller card for your primary hard drive?

 
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just extra storage. and i found that this card is an FIC Promise blah blah, and i called Prmise and the guy said i had to go through FIC for support. but FIC doesn't have drivers for their OEM stuff online i guess. What should i do? return it? get one retail or something?
 

cutty

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Boot up your system, it will tell you a new device is found and ask for driver, insert the floppy and install the driver. After installing the driver, reboot the system. When your system comes back again, you should be able to see the new HD in your "my computer" windows as your all other HDs.



<< ok not i have it all connected. how do i get windows to a) recognize the drive b) format it et al?

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the card was instantly recognized, although a box didnt' come up confirming to me that it was installed. but in the hardware manager it shows up. but the HD doesn't. i'll see when i get back later, maybe pick one up at work tonight and see.
 

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<< the card was instantly recognized, although a box didnt' come up confirming to me that it was installed. but in the hardware manager it shows up. but the HD doesn't. i'll see when i get back later, maybe pick one up at work tonight and see. >>



sounds like your controller card is installed then.

BUT, i'm assuming your drive isn't formatted, and that's why it doesn't show up

what OS ARE YOU RUNNING????????

if win2k, you can go into "disk administrator" and format the drive there

if win9x/ME, you need to boot off a bootable floppy and format the drive from there