HELP!!! RC5 setup in a dual boot machine.

[IsOs]

I have an MSI 694D version 1 with only ATA66 running dual PIII on Windows 2000 in a single partition 30GB ATA66 harddrive. I would like to install a Maxtor Ultra ATA-100 PCI adapter card and an 80 GB harddrive. The second harddrive will allow dual booting with Windows 98SE, both drives is formatted with FAT32 for compatibility.

How can I install Windows 98SE since Windows 2000 is already running? When it's boot to Windows 98, I would like to have RC5 automatically run as well using the same buffers as in Windows 2000. If I give both OS the same computer name and share name in the network, will the other computers automatically reconnect the shared resources? Currently the Windows 2000 RC5 is providing buffers to the rest of the computers in the network. I don't want to interrupt the connection when I reboot to the different OS.

By the way, which of the PCI slot in the MSI 694D dual cpu motherboard is busmastering capable? Should I disable the onboard ATA66 controller? I have the Maxtor 30GB ATA66 drive in the master primary and an IDE DVD drive in the secondary master right now.

Do I need to change anything in the BIOS to allow booting in the drive connected to the new ATA100 controller?

Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[TwoFace]

IsOs,

I'd think if you just change the primary boot device in the BIOS you'd be able to dual boot win98 and win2k that way... this will require a BIOS change whenever you want to change OS, which I hope isn't too often since you've got a dual setup and win9x not supporting SMP and all 😉 At least it should work.

For the rest of the questions this is a ^ since I really don't know and guesswork isn't what you're after anyway 😉

With love and respect your fellow TA member

Two-Face

 

[sciencewhiz]

You don't want to use "shared" buffers for that setup. since you are using 2 different OSs. Each time you switch operating systems, the partially completed work would be discarded.

A better solution is to use "remote" buffers. This is what I use for my Linux/win98/beos system. It works best if you use one OS much more than the other, or you can't connect to the internet in one OS (my case). To set this up for the OS you are in less, go to the buffer options screen (2) in the config menu and set option 8 to the directory with the buffer files for the primary OS. This will cause the secondary OS to fetch and flush blocks from the primary OSs buffer files like it were fetching and flushing from a pproxy.

If you use both OS aproximately equally or both have internet connections, than it is probably easier to just use 2 seperate installations that are totally independent of each other.

Hope this helps! 🙂

Edit: I just realized that I didn't really answer your questions. You will need to configure the bios to boot off the ata controller, but I'm not sure how, becuase I haven't done it. Not sure about much else.

 

[KGB]

IsOs,

Are you trying to dual-boot 98SE on an SMP system (dual CPU)?

98SE doesn't support SMP (as most ppl here are aware).

(maybe I got confused by the original post)

 

[IsOs]

Thank for the response.

The Windows 98 drive loaded at first and reconfigured itsolf. However, when I loaded the ATA100 driver, I got a Windows protection error. I tried deleting enum and let Windows 98 reconfigure itself again but got a BSOD. Even if I don't let Windows 98 to reload ATA100 driver, it still not booting - I only got a black screen after the splash, this time no error but just hang up.

Windows NT4 and Windows 2000 can use the drive and loaded the ATA100 driver without a problem. I might have to reinstall Windows 98 from scratch.

KGBMAN,

Yes I'm very much aware of Windows 98 not being able to use the second cpu. However, it's the best OS to use with Matrox G200 TV card to capture, edit and output the video to VCR using AVID Cinema. There are bugs in Matrox BETA drivers for Windows 2000.

 

[IsOs]

When you fail trying, try it again. Since I can boot in safe mode, I decided to try some more. I remove most devices using the device manager then I remove enum in regedit. It reboot but started to double up the listing of devices. I remove the other DMA controller device (I left the one with the yellow !), remove the ATA-100 device one more time.

This time it's booting to Windows 98 once again. Ican enable DMA in the 1st drive which is connected to the onboard IDE controller but there's no DMA box in the other two drives connected to the Maxtor ATA-100 controller. During the boot up screen, the ATA-100 controller will detect the two harddrives and list one as UltraDMA 5 and the other as UltraDMA 4 as well as a line saying IDE DMA Enabled.

Is there a simple program that can test the disk transfer rate of the drives?