ATA66 $10 no gimmicks/rebates

[Blundar]

Cheap ata66 controllers $10 promise Ultra66
I found these, already ordered one, its bare controller only, but... hey

 

[mrVW]

$10 S/H for 1 card and 1 Socket 7 CPU FAN, I don't think so.

 

[dingdongdingdong]

It is good deal. but warning for all sound blaster card user. if you plane upgrade to all kind of control card will give you bigest headache you ever have. (all sound blaster driver get conflic with allmost all controler card driver)

 

[larrymoencurly]

And Fry's Electronics has ATA66 or ATA100 cards for $15.

 

[MontyBurns]

Two things:

First, beware that you will need an ATA/66 or 100 cable to connect the card to your drive, and I'd bet at $10 it's not included here.

Second: I dont know what you mean about soundblaster problems. Three of my computers have various soundblaster cards, and all have promise controllers, and I've never had any problem.

 

[Slash3]

Ditto what MontyBurns said, no problems at all with my SB Live! Platinum & Promise Ultra100.

 

[asoltani]

DON'T BUY IT!!! These guys are crooks, they sent me a smashed up card and never responded. They also have a very low rating. look at the picture in this link: Ultra DMA card

 

[dingdongdingdong]

well i have clean install winme and install the sound blaster platinum 5.1 it work fine. untill i install the the promise 66ATA. it got hang nerver able to boot up. then i try save molde clear the promise driver and the the card out it work like a magic again. then i put the maxtor 100ATA in and install the drive it happen again and i uninstall the driver and took the card out it work like a magic again. the then i go to ABIT KT7A+RAID anable the 100ATA divice and install the driver and it happen again can not boot. disable the driver and go to bios disable it again. it work like a magic again . so you tell me what going on here?????????????????? is it the problem soundblaster live driver get conflic with the controler card driver????????????????????????????????????

 

[BAMAVOO]

Hey DingDong check the IRQ's of the SBLive and the Controller card..Make sure they are not the same..

 

[dingdongdingdong]

hi BAMAVOO thank for reply here is my set up i put sound blater platinum 5.1 in pci slot one . which mean in next to my graphic card , pci 2 for controler card pci3 for ethernet card for my dsl connector. my mobo is abit KT7A+raid. so can you see what wrong here?? please tell me how to fix this problem

 

[rebuilder]

Yes, I had a similar problem a couple of hours ago.
I was trying out the beta Windows Whistler on a second drive and couldn't figure out why my promise card wasn't working.
The soundblaster live and promise card was IRQ 5 .

I disabled the soundblaster so that the promise would work until I can fiddle with it some more.

 

[State]

asoltani OH MY GOSH!!!!! Their dog got a it.

 

[dingdongdingdong]

hi rebuiler. think if you could disable creative sb 16 emulator than you got no problem. i cannot do it. everytime idisable it and bootup one again it install itselft and the problem come again

 

[DiverDown]

Looks like someone ran it over

 

[yodayoda]

or some numb-nuts smashed it with a hammer after he got it and realized it was ATA/66 and not ATA/100 right asoltani?

 

[Shippy]

Hey Dingdong,
Put the sblive into pci slot 3.

Shippy

 

[TurtleMan]

umm so the ata-100 card is sold for 15 bux in Fry's ?

 

[Pothead]

hey guys, disabling the sb 16 emulation does the job. I built a system with a SB Live gamer 5.1 and and ata100 card, had to disable the sb 16 em. and it works fine

 

[dingdongdingdong]

buy the way i have try move to differnt pci slot still happen like that
about creative sb 16 emulation. i also to to disable it. but everytime i boot up it auto reinstall it again. well i have to looking for the creative auto bat relate with auto install but i connot fine it. i mean exactly the file that disable auto stall for the creative sb 16 emulation

 

[Pothead]

try skipping the autobat or config.sys file when booting up

 

[littleprince]

Its the soundblaster problem. Read up at creativelabs.com all you have to do is go into bios, and set irq to a legacy/ non PnP device. The problem is that soundblaster cards use 2 irq's. 5 is the problem, so tell your bios to reserve 5 and you should have no problems.

i have a 5.1 platinum, and promise ata100 by the way.

 

[LiQiCE]

If its autodetecting it again every time, then you're removing it and not disabling it. Try right clicking on it and disabling it, this may solve your problem.

No problems here with Windows 2000, Promise Ultra 66, and SB Live! Platinum 5.1, (all my PCI slots are sharing the same IRQ, because I'm in ACPI mode ... works fine for me!)

 

[Wik]

Never had a problem with my SB live and Promise.

 

[Purvin]

I would go with the ata 100 for $15 if its from PROMISE.

 

[yodayoda]

promise is pretty much the only guy on the block in terms of ATA cards. maxtors are just rebadged promise cards.