Promise Ata100 controller/ Try to add CD-Roms on IDE2 - No go..Anyone else with this prob?

[Trader05]

? I have no idea why this doesn't work..goes to the promise bios screen and stays!

 

[BlakkIce]

i did try switching the pci port its in that worked for me

 

[bacillus]

are you jumpered correctly??

 

[Sundog]

Do the CD-Roms even show up in the controller BIOS screen?

 

[Trader05]

I am jumpered correctly....i tried switching the pci slot, no luck.......the cd-roms don't even show up!

 

[Trader05]

anyone know?!!?!?!?

 

[luv2chill]

you set the master/slave correctly, right? Do you have the latest BIOS? I actually do have a Samsung DVD-ROM set as a master on the second channel of a Promise Ultra100 and it works fine (nothing is slave on that channel). I do notice that if I don't have a CD in the drive, the BIOS screen takes a while trying to find the drive and then doesn't, but as soon as I get into Win2k (server SP-2 BTW) it is listed. I just keep a CD in the drive so the thing boots faster.

So anyway, check your cables and jumpers and make sure you've flashed the latest BIOS. Barring that, try just each drive on its own set as master, and keep discs in the drives. I bet you'll get it to work. If none of that works, it must be an incompatibility between your drives and the card.

Hope that helps.

l2c

 

[lilnnjaboy]

From what I know...the older model CD-Roms are not liked too well by the Promise Cards. Only put drives on the card that will benefit from Bus Mastering. Like CD burners...or newer CD roms and DVD Roms. I hooked up an old drive to my Promise card...and I had the same problem....you think you can switch the config around and put the cd-roms on the board and something else on the card?

 

[4824guy]

I had a cd-rw that didn't work while plugged into a High Point PCI controller card. I had to put it on the mobo's ide's.