some mobo probs.....

[soothers]

sup all..
ive got a quantum fireball lct20 40gig
and a
30gig western digital caviar ..

they are both ata 100...
but on the second boot screen when i turn on my comp it shows both drives and says
lba, ata 33 40000mb
lba, ata 33 30000mb ............

is there some setting i gotta turn on or something?..

i got a abit kt7a mobo..
please help..
anyone...
thanks

 

[wasnlos]

do you use UDMA-100-cables, the ones with blue, grey and black connectors
blue for mainboard
grey for slave
black for master

???

 

[shathal]

Other way to identify this:

UDMA 66/100 cables have 80 wires as opposed to the "normal" 40-wires from old IDE-cables. They still have 40 pin connectors, just the wires "look a lot finer" to be rather un-tekkie about this.

40-wire cables are limited to ATA/33. You need 80-wire cables for ATA/66 or ATA/100 modes.

Hope this helps.

 

[mstudd]

Some drives need to be switched to ATA 100 using a small program available from the manufacturers website, not sure about yours, but go check it out.
Good luck.

 

[soothers]

kool!!!!!

i was using a normal ide cable..
i changed it with one of those finer cables with the blue bit connected to the mboard..
it now says ata100 when it boots up..
thanks guys!!!!!

but i notice no difference...
should i be??

 

[shathal]

It depends what you do & how fast your drives are.

Also - I would recommend you should enable DMA. Check in Device Manager.

You have to enable DMA (tick a box) in the properties of each HDD or CD-ROM in Win9X based system seperately. In W2K you enable DMA on the Controllers.

That'll give you a boost too .

 

[soothers]

dma is enabled already..