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"Irwin" <ebct@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1120922068.543903.40840@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com
> Thank you, Eric. I was not familiar with Everest Home but I found the
> website with the free download. Sadly, I don't have the technical
> expertise to understand the information that you sent and likely won't
> understand what Everest gives me. For instance, I do not see the
> connection between the information below and how that gets to my goals,
> which include:
>
> 1) How to access my ITE IDE-RAID drive from DOS.
Just do. Set it up for single drive use.
> 2) Understand why certain DOS based utilities such as Ghost 2003 and
> Maxblast 4 can access the drive
There shouldn't be any problem with that.
The ITE raid card surely has bios support.
> but Windows (without specific drivers) cannot.
Because it's Windows, obviously. Windows uses drivers.
In what cave have you been living?
The exception is Win9x that can run a device in compatibility
mode where access is through the BIOS.
> 3) Move my OS off the drive on the standard IDE port to the drive on
> the IDE-RAID port.
And what will that accomplish?
>
> Thanks for any insight, answers, or links you can provide.
>
> IMF
>
> Eric Gisin wrote:
> > "Irwin" ebct@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1120903793.157849.136320@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> > > As I have mentioned before, I have a regular IDE hard drive on an
> > > IDE-raid connector on my new motherboard.
> > > It can not be seen by Windows without a special driver.
Gee, that's weird, given that windows relies on drivers to function at all.
> > > On the other hand, it can be seen by the
> > > Maxblast 4 CD and the Ghost 2003 CD. Anyone know why? More
> > > specifically, what is it those two CDs use to see the drive? I don't
> > > see a driver for the motherboard or the connector being installed, so
> > > how do they see the drive?
> > >
> > The various drivers handle PCI IDE configuration differently.
But the common is that a driver *is* needed, whether generic or chip specific.
> >
> > Use Everest Home ed to look at the PCI Device details.
> > A typical IDE controller looks like this:
> >
> > Device Description Intel 82801BA ICH2 - ATA-100 IDE Controller [B-0]
> > Bus Type PCI
> > Bus / Device / Function 0 / 31 / 1
> > Device ID 8086-244B
> > Subsystem ID 8086-2442
> > Device Class 0101 (IDE Controller)
> > Revision 01
> > Fast Back-to-Back Transactions Not Supported
> >
> > SCSI/RAID would be Device Class 0100, and requires unique drivers.
> > There should be a BIOS setting to change this to IDE - 0101.