Re: 230 gig drive on Promise ATA 133/SATA card not recognized

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From: DL (dl_at_spoofmail.com)
Date: 04/17/04 

Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 15:52:39 +0100

The Promise card, should I believe have included drivers
eg
http://www.promise.com/support/download/download2_eng.asp?productId=88&category=driver&os=0
If trying to boot from old hd it may be that you require to repair the win2k
installation, installing the drivers, using the F6 option.
BTW is there a reason for having 'ghosted' you now wish to revert to
origonal hd? seemingly using the sata drive as a slave?

"Dave" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:040f01c4247f$7a5a6ed0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> Greetings
>
> I have a maxtor 230 gig IDE ATA 133 DMA 6 drive connected
> to a Promise ATA 133/SATA controller on a Soyo Dragon
> P4X400 mobo. The Promise card and maxtor drive were
> bundled together. When I installed it, I used Norton
> Ghost to transfer the old C: drive to the maxtor. In the
> BIOS I set it to boot SCSI and all was well. It booted
> off the Maxtor fine.
>
> My problem is if I boot from my old C drive (via changing
> the boot order in the BIOS to HDD 0 insead of SCSI), the
> Maxtor is not recognized, only the drives connected to
> the on board controllers show up. During the boot, the
> Promise controller card still signs on and lists the
> drive, but XP doesnt see it. XP says a new mass storage
> controller is installed but cant find a driver for it.
>
> Why does the maxtor run fine when its the boot drive but
> not recognized when its not? I have installed the 48 bit
> LBA registry patch. There were no drivers for the
> controller card. What am I missing here?
>
> Again, when the BIOS is set to boot SCSI (the maxtor on
> the promise card) all is well, but when booting from HDD
> 0 (on board IDE controller) the Maxtor is not found, even
> though the Promise card signs on and correctly lists the
> drive.
>
> Any help or insights appreciated.

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