A7V133 problem

The A7V133 has 4 IDE connections. I do not have the board but I am almost certain you are getting this line because you are not using at least two of them. The "error" just means that the two additonal IDE ports you have are not in use and will be disabled. If you don't need them this is best because it will free up interrupts in windows. Don't worry I believe it is normal.

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Heres how the A7V133 works,
There are 4 IDE connectors onboard, 2 by themselves which are DMA 100 and Raid compatible and 2 above the floppy connector which are DMA 100 non raid.
If you plug a harddrive into one of the IDE ports that are above the floppy port(non raid) your drive will be seen by the bios and not the promise drivers as IDE 33/66/100 H/D and will result in the Promise driver(which loads after the regular bios)not to detect the device, hence telling you "no device found" when the Promise diver loads.
If you plug your H/D into the Raid DMA 100 ports (the two that are not by the floppy port) then your bios will not detect IDE H/D but the promise Driver will see it and load your ultra DMA 33/66/100 device depending on what you have.
To set up 2 harddrives in raid 0 format you need to set jumpers 13 an 14 from the default setting of 1-2 to raid setting of 2-3 then plug the 2 drives into the DMA 100 Raid ports each with its own DMA 66/100 IDE cable.
One cable (blue end) into the primary raid port (black end) into one of the h/d's and other cable (blue end) into the secondary raid port (black end) in to 2nd H/D . When you start the system for the first time after setting up the system as stated above your A7V133 promise raid driver will see the 2 drives and prompt you to set up your array. Its all auto so no problem there. Just follow on screen instuctions.
After you setup the raid array your system will see the 2 drives as 1 drive. You will have to Fdisk and Format the array before you load an OS.
Lastly, with the IBM 75GXP DMA 100 drives and most likey most DMA 100 h/d's you should set your jumpers on the h/d as cable select not master. This will allow the h/d to be seen as being connected to a DMA 66/100 cable and mobo and or Raid card.

Hope this Helps
Damned Wrongway

I have a 30GB IBM DESKSTAR attached to the (non raid) IDE port. I guess thats why I get that message at boot up. In the future I will buy a second hard drive and set up RAID. For now I will ignore that message.

Thanks for the information guys.
SIGG

I just tried moving the HD from the port next to the floppy to the raid port. The computer boots up and the promise driver detects the HD. The problem is the computer locks up at the WIN98 screen. I moved the HD back to the non raid port and the computer boots up fine. I do have the current promise driver loaded.

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