i need to know...

[innosense]

well, i have an asus a7v (not kt133a), which i know supports ata/66. how can i "make it go" ata/100? cause i wanted to use my udma5 hdd...

also, one question about the 4-in-1 drivers: the only drivers i can install are the inf and agp vxd drivers. why the hell can't i see the atapi vendor support driver and pci irq miniport driver?

these seem like 2-in-1 drivers...

 

[bacillus]

<< cause i wanted to use my udma5 hdd... >>


you'll need to put the hdd on the promise controller ide but install the promise drivers(if you haven't already done so) before moving the drive!

 

[innosense]

<< you'll need to put the hdd on the promise controller ide >>

how do i do it?

can anyone help with the 4-in-one stuff?

 

[MCS]

Ok first you need to pick up a PCI ATA-100 controller card (which one is up to you). Get it installed, get the drivers installed and then move your HD over to it.

Assuming you are using Win98 I have always found that all you need to install are the VIA AGP drivers. You will be using your controller cards IDE drivers anyway for your HD.

 

[innosense]

i'm using win me.

udma4 seems to be working. do you think it is worth changing to udma5? or is it too much work for too little results?

 

[MCS]

You won't see an incredible difference, no.

Which hard drive have you got?

 

[innosense]

well, i don't really know... i bought my box with it, so i don't have the documentation.

but when the bios is set to auto, it is recognized as udma5 during boot up. all i can say is that the device manager describes it as geneic ide disk type 47, whatever the hell it means...

 

[SpongeBob]

If you have an A7V it has onboard ATA-100, check your manual, there are four IDE connectors on the motherboard, 2 of these are ATA-100, the other 2 are ATA-66. Connect your drive to the primary ATA-100 channel and install the drivers that came with your board.

 

[innosense]

do i need a special connector or can i use the one in the ata-66 slot?

 

[innosense]

correct me if i'm wrong, i just wanna be sure of it:

if my hdd is auto-recognized as udma5, it means i can connect it to the ata/100 connectors, right?

will everything else keep working fine? i don't want to mess everything up here...so the procedure is that simple: disconnect ata/66, connect ata/100, install drivers, done.

have i forgotten anything?

 

[bacillus]

<< do i need a special connector or can i use the one in the ata-66 slot? >>


no, you can use the ata66 ide cable for connection to the promise ata 100 controller ide!

 

[innosense]

are there ata/66 hdds which are recognized as udma5? or i can be sure it's an ata/100 one?

 

[SpongeBob]

When you boot up, after the initial screen showing bios version, ide detection, etc, there is another screen showing Promise Ultra ATA-100 device detection, you should see that it detects your hard drive. If it does you are good to go on ATA-100.