I've gotten this controller card working on this system before just fine, but now I'm having problems.
I had a hard drive go bonkers that required a low-level format. So I figured I'd just reformat everything and give it a ful install again (as I've needed to do it for a while). I've rearranged some drives, and things aren't quite working right now. Let me explain my before configuration (the internal parts on my system have stayed the same, the only thing that has changed is what IDE devices are plugged in where).
Relevant System Components:
-Tyan Tiger 100 (1832) Dual Slot 1 Mobo with bios 2.00.5
-Western Digital Caviar 8.4 GIG Drive (Model: AC38400L)
-Western Digital Expert 20 GIG Drive (Model: WD205BA)
-Iomega 12x/10x/32x CD Burner
-Iomega Internal Zip 100 Drive
-Promise Bios v2.0 build 18 on my Ultra66
My config before (that worked fine):
-Motherboard IDE:
-Primary Master: 8.4 GIG Drive
-Primary Slave: CD Burner
-Nothing on Secondary
-Promise Controller:
-Primary Master: 20 GIG Drive
-Primary Slave: Zip Drive
I had a dual boot setup with Windows 98 on the motherboard IDE and Windows 2K on the 20gig drive, with the motherboard IDE being the boot drive (it had NTLDR, etc... on it).
After the hard drive crash, I decided just to completely get rid of Windows 98, as I never booted into it, and make my 8.4 gig drive a temp drive for Win2k (as it was not as reliable). So I backed up my data using another computer, and then reconnected everything as follows to move the HD's to the Ultra66 controller exclusively:
-Motherboard IDE:
-Primary Master: CD Burner
-Secondary Master: Iomega Zip 100
-Promise Controller:
-Primary Master: 20 GIG Drive
-Secondary Master: 8.4 GIG Drive
All the jumpers are setup properly for everything being the master.
Reboot, motherboard IDE is detected fine, Ultra66 bios doesn't detect the HDs. So I read in the FAQs at Promise's site that WD HDs, if they were the only thing on the chain, had to have the jumpers removed. So I removed them, and then the promise card bios detected them, but I couldn't access those drives after booting to a floppy and trying to FDISK (said no fixed disks present). Booted with a Partition Magic boot disk (v 7.0) got a similar error. Booted with my Western Digital tools disk, and it was able to find the drives, so I low-level formatted them in there to clean them completely off, and then tried to setup/partition them using the tools in there. While it tried to do so, it did give me an error saying my bios isn't setup to work with these drives.
So, following some other tips in thier FAQs, I tried rearranging the cards, no avail. Tried manually setting the off-board controller slot in my bios, no avail. Couldn't find the setting in the bios to resetup and redetect everything, so I couldn't try that. And FDISK/Partition Magic still can't find the drives.
Any ideas at all? I'm going to comb through the newsgroups and Tyan's support site to see if I can find any answers, but meanwhile I thought I'd plug you guys. I'd like to keep this arrangement, if possible, keeping the HDs off the motherboard controller (as the Ultra66 card is faster). Let me know if you need anything else from me. I want my main system back up and running, as working on my laptop is a pain in the ass!
Thanks!
-orty
I had a hard drive go bonkers that required a low-level format. So I figured I'd just reformat everything and give it a ful install again (as I've needed to do it for a while). I've rearranged some drives, and things aren't quite working right now. Let me explain my before configuration (the internal parts on my system have stayed the same, the only thing that has changed is what IDE devices are plugged in where).
Relevant System Components:
-Tyan Tiger 100 (1832) Dual Slot 1 Mobo with bios 2.00.5
-Western Digital Caviar 8.4 GIG Drive (Model: AC38400L)
-Western Digital Expert 20 GIG Drive (Model: WD205BA)
-Iomega 12x/10x/32x CD Burner
-Iomega Internal Zip 100 Drive
-Promise Bios v2.0 build 18 on my Ultra66
My config before (that worked fine):
-Motherboard IDE:
-Primary Master: 8.4 GIG Drive
-Primary Slave: CD Burner
-Nothing on Secondary
-Promise Controller:
-Primary Master: 20 GIG Drive
-Primary Slave: Zip Drive
I had a dual boot setup with Windows 98 on the motherboard IDE and Windows 2K on the 20gig drive, with the motherboard IDE being the boot drive (it had NTLDR, etc... on it).
After the hard drive crash, I decided just to completely get rid of Windows 98, as I never booted into it, and make my 8.4 gig drive a temp drive for Win2k (as it was not as reliable). So I backed up my data using another computer, and then reconnected everything as follows to move the HD's to the Ultra66 controller exclusively:
-Motherboard IDE:
-Primary Master: CD Burner
-Secondary Master: Iomega Zip 100
-Promise Controller:
-Primary Master: 20 GIG Drive
-Secondary Master: 8.4 GIG Drive
All the jumpers are setup properly for everything being the master.
Reboot, motherboard IDE is detected fine, Ultra66 bios doesn't detect the HDs. So I read in the FAQs at Promise's site that WD HDs, if they were the only thing on the chain, had to have the jumpers removed. So I removed them, and then the promise card bios detected them, but I couldn't access those drives after booting to a floppy and trying to FDISK (said no fixed disks present). Booted with a Partition Magic boot disk (v 7.0) got a similar error. Booted with my Western Digital tools disk, and it was able to find the drives, so I low-level formatted them in there to clean them completely off, and then tried to setup/partition them using the tools in there. While it tried to do so, it did give me an error saying my bios isn't setup to work with these drives.
So, following some other tips in thier FAQs, I tried rearranging the cards, no avail. Tried manually setting the off-board controller slot in my bios, no avail. Couldn't find the setting in the bios to resetup and redetect everything, so I couldn't try that. And FDISK/Partition Magic still can't find the drives.
Any ideas at all? I'm going to comb through the newsgroups and Tyan's support site to see if I can find any answers, but meanwhile I thought I'd plug you guys. I'd like to keep this arrangement, if possible, keeping the HDs off the motherboard controller (as the Ultra66 card is faster). Let me know if you need anything else from me. I want my main system back up and running, as working on my laptop is a pain in the ass!
Thanks!
-orty
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