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ultra ata 100 card

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rubix

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i bought a new harddrive and it came with a free ultra ata 100 pci card (a promise ultra 100 tx2). does anyone know if i could use this with my main drive where the os is installed and be able boot from it? i am pretty sure i can since it has it's own bios and shows it during bootup, but i want to be sure.

also, would there be any benefit to using my dvd-r and cd-r drives with it?
 
Not a problem. Put your hard drive on the controller card. Put each CD on its own IDE channel as masters. You may have to configure you main bios to boot from the card. Set it to boot from SCSI or Other Boot Device
 
If the card is a Promise made card, your optical drives will not work connected to it. You should keep them connected to your motherboard. Generally speaking, if you don't need to use the card, I wouldn't. It slows boot speed a bit, though I don't think there is a noticable difference once you are booted and in Windows. (I don't notice a difference. I use the Promise TX2 100 for my 200GB WD drives, as my motherboard was not liking them).

\Dan
 
Originally posted by: rubix
i bought a new harddrive and it came with a free ultra ata 100 pci card (a promise ultra 100 tx2). does anyone know if i could use this with my main drive where the os is installed and be able boot from it? i am pretty sure i can since it has it's own bios and shows it during bootup, but i want to be sure.
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yes you can.
you'll need to first install the card without any devices attached & install the drivers to your OS.
after you've done that connect your boot hdd to the controller & change the boot order in bios so that scsi comes before ide.
you're then good to go!
 
unfortunately i am having too many problems with this. it's probably because my motherboard is super old (an abit 440bx bx6 mb). it won't let me boot from the promise ata adapter even after setting my mbs bios to scsi. and if i connect the harddrive to my board it only detects 136gb of it (which is not that big a deal), but also it fails to boot after ghosting winxp onto it. so then i use my old harddrive to boot and keep the new harddrive on the promise card and now everything seems to run slow despite winxp claiming everything is in the correct dma mode. and even stranger is now i can barely burn cds as it claims my source drives are too slow, which is bs.

so i am going to finally upgrade this motherboard. it's causing me too much trouble and 5+ years of use is enough.
 
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