Couple questions on the IDE controller I have.

[Guest]

I have the Highpoint Technology Side-Pro HPT366 Ultra DMA 66 IDE controller installed.

 

You can see by my system specs below that I have 3 hard drives... all using the normal motherboard IDE slots. Therefore my controller card is not being used at all... at least not yet.

 

Here are my questions:

1)I am using Windows 2k Pro...how do I install an OS (win2k) on a hard drive connected to the IDE controller? Win2k automatically looks for drives on the default IDE bus... so how can I tell it to find my hard drives on the controller card instead?

 

2) Since the IDE controller card works off of system bus, will I lose any performance in my system if hard drives are connected to it?

 

3)Ok.... to sum up... perhaps I should tell you what I have in mind. I would like to put my Westerd Digital on the primary slot of the controller card and my Seagate on the slave of the controller card. I would like to put my Quantum on my Primary IDE bus on the motherboard, and my CD-Rom on the Secondary.

 

How can I make my Western Digital (on the primary IDE of the controller card) read as the c:\ drive? Note that the Quantum hard drive will automatically be named the c:\ drive because it's on the primary IDE slot of the motherboard.....

 

um........mmkay?

 

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Pentium II 450@504 4.5X112

128MB PC100 SDRAM

Diamond Viper V770 Ultra

Sound Blaster Live! Value

Seagate 13.6 Gig 7200RPM ATA/66

Western Digital 13.4 Gig 7200RPM ATA/66

Quantum 8.3 Gig

36X Acer CD Rom

Viewsonic PS790 19" Sweet as Heck Monitor

3Com NIC

Lexmark 5700 Printer

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[Guest]

Anybody?

 

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---Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.---

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Pentium II 450@504 4.5X112

128MB PC100 SDRAM

Diamond Viper V770 Ultra

Sound Blaster Live! Value

Seagate 13.6 Gig 7200RPM ATA/66

Western Digital 13.4 Gig 7200RPM ATA/66

Quantum 8.3 Gig

36X Acer CD Rom

Viewsonic PS790 19" Sweet as Heck Monitor

3Com NIC

Lexmark 5700 Printer

http://sandoval.dynip.com

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[rbarbier 0]

I have the Abit-BE6 with 2 20 gig Maxtor 7200 UDMA 66 drives. I found the best thing to do is install Win 2000 with the drives hooked up to the main controller port. Don't even try to mess with installing Win 2000 if the drives are hooked up to the HPT slots. After you get Windows 2000 installed then move the drives to the HPT like you want making sure you keep the drive letters the same.

 

You shouldn't loose any performance with the slower drive hooked up. I have the 2 20's hooked up the the HPT 366 and my DVD and CDR hooked up to the main controller (for compatability).

[zalem 0]

The right way should be, hook up your drives to the hp controller in. When the blue win2k installation screen turns up hit f6 and install the driver for your hp controller. then after the first reboot you must change boot sequence in bios so that it starts with scsi!

[rbarbier 0]

Believe me, I tried this many times with the disk that came with my board, and with a disk from the net with the drivers on it and I could not get it to work. I just moved the drives to the primary controller card and it worked great to install then moved them back to the hp.

[Bricolator 0]

Look in the forum of http://www.bp6.com

 

The controler is onboard on the BP6 mobo, so many BP6 users have had similar problems.

 

Sincerely

[Cheese Weasel 0]

What you guys keep forgetting to tell him is that the boot order in the BIOS has to be changed. Hopefully your BIOS will let you change the order so it will look at A: first, then SCSI, NOT C:! I've got a HotRod66 controller that works great with a boot sequence of A:, C:, SCSI, but only because the primary master drive on the motherboard is a DVD drive, and not a hard disk. If I had a HD on the motherboard's primary master, this boot sequence wouldn't work, because the BIOS would be trying to boot from it instead of the HPT66 controller. You have to do this in order to get everything to work the way you want it to when you hook it up. This will fix problem #1.

Don't worry about #2, because the onboard IDE controller uses the PCI bus, just like the add-in controller. If using an add-in card decreased performance, no one would use them, right?

As for #3, what you want to do isn't out of the ordinary in the least. Change the boot order, plug in the drives like you want to, then install W2K, but you have to feed it the HPT366 drivers when the installation asks for it!!

Other than that, everything should go normally. Good luck.