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How to install a Promise Ultra66, need help please

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jaytone

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I just purchased a used Promise Ultra66 for my Asus P3BF. The card came only with cables but no drivers or manual.
I checked Promise site and there is no manual available for download. So here are my questions
1. How do I install and set up the card.
2. What do I change in the BIOS of my motherboard, do I keep the onboard IDE's enabled or should I disable them
3. On Promise site there are drivers and Bios upgrades. Do I need them and how to I install them. There were no instructions included in their download.
4. I am using a Maxtor 27 gig that supports Ultra66, is it worth using this card and will there be a noticable difference

Many thanks
 
Manual here: ftp://ftp.promise.com/Controllers/IDE/Ultra66/Manual/

Driver here: ftp://ftp.promise.com/Controllers/IDE/Ultra66/Driver/

Shouldn't be that hard. Just install it in your PCI slot, connect your hard drive to the slot in the card, boot up the system. If it fails to boot, go into bios and make sure the boot sequence starts off with SCSI then ATA and not ATA then SCSI. Windows should detect a new driver... if it doesn't recognize it but continues anyway, check your Device Manager (right click My Computer -> Properties -> Device Manager) and see if PCI Device Controller or something like that is around there with a yellow questionmark icon. If it is, install that driver and after you install that driver, remove the yellow question mark off of Device Manager. Your all set.
 
You will need to hook up the hard drive to your normal IDE controller on your motherboard, and then install the card's BIOS. Once that's done, you will need to reboot into windows and install the card's drivers. Then, proceed to hook up the devices and be careful about master/slave settings. Connect the blue connector to the promise controller and the black end to your master drive. Connect the grey middle end to the slave drive (if you have one). Reboot and ensure everything is detected in the promise BIOS.

Most likely, there is also a copy of the manual in pdf form on the web site.
 
Connect the blue end of cable to controller card the other end to harddrive(after you have put the card in a spare PCI slot)if you have your harddrive as auto detect you don`t have to change anything as the motherboard bios will know there is no harddrive attached, you can leave your CD conected to motherboard(that`s what I did),if you don`t have auto detect for your harddrive in bios ,change it to none since it is now going to boot off the Promise card(don`t forget to save before exit in BIOS) after you have bootedup it you should then install the driver for it,note this above install instructions is for Windows98,(there should be a readme file that should tell you how to install on the drivers)I believe NT is not the same procedure.This is way I did it going by my memory a few years ago(when the ATA-66 card first came out).

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Thanks to all. When you say to install the driver, is that done with a bootable disk with the drivers on it ?
 


<< 4. I am using a Maxtor 27 gig that supports Ultra66, is it worth using this card and will there be a noticable difference >>



4. No, will not be able to notice any HD speed increase or improvment. Only by doing a HD benchmark with a program like HDtach will you be able to see or measure the improvement. It only increase the burst rate transfer, not the sustained HD transfer.
 
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