andyw 0 Posted January 28, 2000 I have two drives from IBM, one with 15GB and one with 20GB. On both are W2k clean-installs (using the standard onboard ide-controller), but only the 15GB drive can boot on the UDMA66-controller (Abit BE6 Rev.2, HPT366-onboard-controller)... When connecting the 20GB drive to the HPT366 as master drive the htp366 setup tells me there is no bootable device connected, but on the normal ide-controller it works (like now, btw)! Any solution? Second problem: Both drives (15GB=master, 20GB=slave) work on udma4 w/o problems, but when using a drive from Maxtor instead the slave from IBM w2k hangs itself up upon rebooting. Yes, I have all the latest stuff installed (BIOS'es, drivers, ...) Doesnt the HPT366 like Maxtor drives or just not different manufacturers? AndyW Share this post Link to post
radx 0 Posted January 28, 2000 all i can think of is perhapes that the 20gb drive isn't put as "active"-partition, is it? Just a thought. Bout the other prolem i've got no clue since i've never encounted the problem my self, i dont have a dma 66 controler, though i have one dma66 hdd, but i use scsi too, so i'm not to iger to get a dma66 controler =) Share this post Link to post
andyw 0 Posted January 30, 2000 hehe, thanks, but the partition is marked as "active"... i can boot from this partition on the normal controller, but not at the udma66-controller.... in the meantime i learned why: when resizing the partition in 1gb-steps from 20gb downto 15gb, i was surprised that i could boot when the boot-partition size was smaller than 16gb!!! as this just something within the bios of the controller, i wrote an email to highpoint-tech to fix this in the next bios-update.... thanx to all, hope i could help others... Share this post Link to post
Shrink 0 Posted January 30, 2000 This is a known issue (among many others) with the HPT366 controller. One of the reasons I ditched my BE6. Check the abit newsgroups. ------------------ Shrink 92% of the things we worry about don't happen - but the other 8% DO! Share this post Link to post
zendog 0 Posted February 11, 2000 I had the same problem, i had to set my IBM 20gigger to Cable select and it booted. Faught that damn thing for like 3 hours before i tryed that and it worked.. hope that helps ------------------ zendog Win2k Gold Dual cele 366 OCed @ 550 Matrox G200 Voodoo 2 SB Live 20gb Ibm HD Nic, Modem and other crap [This message has been edited by zendog (edited 11 February 2000).] [This message has been edited by zendog (edited 11 February 2000).] Share this post Link to post
