Re: Which goes on a PCI Controller Card? A DVD-Rom Drive, or a Zip Drive?
- From: "Lil' Dave" <spamyourself@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 06:51:45 -0500
The HDD LED indicator is still there, you've not lost it. The ide card,
which you identified as a Promise Ultra100 in another reply, has two led
outputs. One for each connector. Simply move the led wire from the
motherboard to the proper connector and pay attention to the polarity. If
it don't work, turn the connector 180 degrees.
Dell's use an Award bios. In the user bios settings should be an option to
boot from scsi first. This will cause the PC to seek the drives on the
Promise card for booting first.
It has been my experiences with this particular ide card that its not
tolerable of using ATAPI devices onboard. Strictly HDs only.
"Cymbal Man Freq." <Don't Bother@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:f9nNe.5440$PM3.5060@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I have 2 HDD's hooked up to a PCI card controller, and I have lost my HDD
LED
> lights because of it and I have to hit F-Lock & F1 to get to the boot
menues
> after the computer beeps twice (on a Dell Dimension 4300) when it can't
find a
> hard drive on the IDE #1 chain. I have my new DVD Burner hooked up on the
end of
> a cable and a Zip Drive hooked up in the middle of the cable to IDE #1. I
also
> have a DVD-Rom Drive hooked up to IDE #2.
>
> I want to put the 2 HDD's back onto IDE #1 so the HDD LED's work when
there is
> hard drive activity. The DVD burner made the LED lights work when playing
back a
> DVD, and it seemed to change intensity by the volume of the sound being
played.
> So it seems IDE #1 is the only place to get the LED lights to work.
>
> So should I have the DVD Burner and the Zip Drive hooked up to IDE #2 and
the
> DVD-Rom hooked up to the PCI Controller card, or should I have the to DVD
Drives
> hooked up to IDE # 2 and the Zip Drive hooked up to the PCI card? I prefer
to
> keep the Zip Drive plugged into something for storing files with long file
> names.
>
>
.
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