p3v4x and ATA100 controller card

[linuxwannabe]

Does anyone have any experience running a ATA100 PCI controller card in their ASUS P3V4X motherboard? Are there enough IRQ's to go around? With all the sharing that goes on, is there a preferrable slot to put the card in with creating nasty conflicts? Right now I have a PCI sound card and all the other PCI slots are empty. Well, I have my very nice ASUS V6800 Deluxe AGP video card in my AGP slot. But that's all for now. I went from a BE6-II v1.0 to the P3V4X to take advantage of my P3-933 cpu and I sure miss those four IDE ports. I have a lot of drives so I want to drop this ATA100 controller in my box. Any advice would be great.

 

[AndyHui]

You shouldn't have any difficulty. Since you have not listed an NIC, I assume that you would have at least one more IRQ free than most people. And even if you did have an NIC, modem, or anything else, you can always disable the serial ports for an extra 2 IRQs.

 

[LocutusX]

Works fine.

I'm running a Promise ATA100 TX2 on my P3V4X in both Win98SE and Win2K SP2 (ACPI enabled).

Works like a charm. 100% stable.

And yes, you can even boot from it. That's what I do.

 

[linuxwannabe]

LocutusX,

Do you have anything disabled in the BIOS or are you running everything? And are you using your IDE ports on the motherboard?

 

[LocutusX]

Nothing disabled. Everythiing enabled. Same video card as you. Also have a Santa Cruz and a Linksys NIC.

On mobo IDE cntrlr: Primary - DVDROM / Secondary - CDRW
On Promise: Primary - 30gb ata66 / Secondary - 60gb ata100

each drive on its own channel (cable).

 

[linuxwannabe]

Sounds good. Thanks for the clear example. I'll be hooking up two harddrives, a int. zip, and a CDRW and a CDROM. BTW, how do ya'll get your system rig link to look like a link instead of a dorky lookin' url?😱

 

[Muadib]

No problems here, but I'm about to retire it.