cusl2 and intel ATA-100 drivers

[max105]

i just installed my cusl2 motherboard with the intel ata100 drivers. as i have found out myself and from reading on the internet, these drivers are not good. all of my ide drives are now recognized as scsi drives. they say the problem can fixed simply by uninstalling the ata-100 drivers. are there any other drivers ata100 drivers out there that i can use to keep my hdd performance up?

 

[benjamat]

I had simolar problem but fixed by downloading latest ata drivers from the intel site along with the latest 815e system management drivers (inf files)
Everything worked fine after.

 

[AndyHui]

The Intel ATA drivers are fine for most situations, and is normal for the OS to recognise your drives as SCSI devices, particularly under Win2K. You might want to try the new beta 6.10 drivers, as they fix numerous problems with the previous 6.03 drivers.

Most of the problems with these Intel ATA drivers relate to ATAPI/IDE CDRWs, where systems with these drivers installed are unable to burn CDRs/CDRWs. Again, the new 6.10 drivers should fix most of these problems, again mostly with Win2K. Win9x seems fine in most cases. If you insist on using the Intel ATA drivers and you have problems with burning, change the maximum transfer rate using the Storage Companion to PIO Mode 4.

The Intel ATA drivers are NOT essential to the operation of your system, and you can get along fine without them, using the drivers provided by Microsoft as part of the OS. Just remember to turn on DMA for best performance.

 

[max105]

hmm...i'm about to uninstall these intel drivers and just wait for the SP2 to come out. how do i turn on the dma in the mean time? do they just turn on by default uninstalling the drivers?

 

[rommel]

i used the beta drivers from theis pageall about the cusl2and they worked fine...but i didnt have trouble with the previous version either....i love this mobo

 

[max105]

well the beta seems to fix the scsi problem, but my burner still seems to be having troubles. it has trouble reading regular cd's that it never had trouble before too. does anyone else have this problem? it only works about half of the time. I haven't tried burning with it yet, as i am pretty sure it won't complete a burn, but i'll post news about it when i try it with a rewritable sometime this week.