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andyw
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 2000-01-28 01:30:00
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
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radx
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 2000-01-28 03:03:00
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 =)
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andyw
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2000-01-30 07:08:00
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...
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Shrink
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2000-01-30 11:06:00
This is a known issue (among many others) with the HPT366 controller. One of the reasons I ditched my BE6. Check the abit newsgroups.
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Shrink
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zendog
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 2000-02-10 23:30:00
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
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[This message has been edited by zendog (edited 11 February 2000).]
[This message has been edited by zendog (edited 11 February 2000).]
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