ASUS A7V BIOS Question

If your motherboard bios is not finding them, then you probably have your devices hooked up to the Promise ata100 controller on the board. So the Promise bios which runs after the motherboard bios should be letting you know it found these devices.

If this is true, then you should be able to set the motherboard Primary and secondary settings to none.

If you have hooked up all the device to the ata100 controller, just make sure you have your slower devices on a different ide cable than the drive or your drive will slow down to the speed of the slowest device on the cable.

In the manual it suggests that the slower devices be placed on the secondary ide controllers i.e. non-ata100 controller.

You can do that (as previously stated), but also as mentioned in the first reply, you shouldn't. You don't want to slow down your ATA-100 controller, use it's interrupts or share your ATA-100 devices with these ATA-33 devices. I would put anything that is NOT ATA-100 on the Primary and Secondary NON-ATA-100 connectors for maximum performance and throughput.

I wouldn't worry about the speed of querying these devices, our A7V's post so fast now (with the new 1006 BIOS), that we can't even read this screen.

For maximum throughput, I would setup the CD-ROM as the Primary IDE Master, and the CD-RW Drive as the Secondary IDE Master. Then finally, leave the IBM Drive by Itself as the Primary ATA-100 Master. Also, don't forget to re-setup your boot order in your BIOS.

Steve Benoit

Stable Technologies
'The way IT should be!'<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by stable on 02/20/01 01:30 PM.</EM></FONT></P>