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In article <5cfjh0daiu20vs7sghhp46enc3b2qmurqe@4ax.com>,
jdean@nowhere.soon, Jimmy Dean says...
> Thanx to all the responses. I should clarify that I wish to boot from
> a parallel ATA HD attached to the on-board Primary IDE controller.
>
> The IDE controller card was for attaching a couple extra HDs (I have 8
> in all, 4x HDs, and 3x CD/DVD drives). So I do not wish to boot from
> these - if I did I presume I would set the boot order to be SCSI
> first.
>
> Yes, the two controllers I have tried have both been Silicon brand.
Good luck than because I have been back & forth with Siig about the same
issue you are discussing when I bought mine, whereas the siig makes any
HD connected to it the "Primary" IDE0 drive. IDE0 meaning the "boot
drive".....I bet if you attach your HD W80B to the primary on the Siig
your system will boot.
If this is the case than I do not know how to make the Siig an "Extra"
IDE controller, which is what the Promise does and does not take over
your drive order. Maybe disabling the BIOS on the Sil card, I'm not sure
as I never got that far (to frustrated) I gave up after Siig could not
help me, so since than I've attached a CD, DVD burner, & a DVD player (3
items) to the Siig and all works perfect & fast.
BTW: I have 6 HD's / 2 burners / a DVD Player / and a CD reader attached
to my one machine with 2 PCI controllers cards installed. Believe me
I've been through the ringer with this machine but it works perfect.
Bottom line as to what I'm saying: I am not able to attach EXTRA HD's to
the Siig period!
>
> I would have liked to get the Promise e.g. ATA 100 TX2, but as it is
> much more expensive, it would have had to be specially ordered.
>
> Anyway it anyone is interested, this is the final config I came up
> with: W = Western Digital 8 MB (JB or JD, pATA or SATA resp.).
>
> I wasn't too fussed on using the legacy to SATA power splitter which
> came in the A7N8X-E dlx pack (have had bad experiences with splitters
> and HDs in the past), but then I found WD HDs have both legacy and
> SATA power connectors!
>
> HD W80B as Primary IDE Master (SYSTEM, APPS, DATA, DOWN partitions)
> HD W160A as Primary IDE Slave (BACKUP drive)
> HD WS120A as SATA1 (PROCESS and ARCHIVE partitions)
> HD WS120A as SATA2 (DVDRIP drive)
> LiteOn XJ-HD166S 16x DVD-ROM as Secondary IDE Master
> HD W120A as removeable backup hard-disk (REM_HD drive)
> Pioneer DVR-A05 as IDE Controller card Primary Master
> LiteOn LTR-48125S CD-RW as IDE Controller card Primary Slave
>
> The CD/DVD burners seem to work OK on the cheapie controller card,
> though I have yet to test them thoroughly. Slow to detect in POST -
> probably adds 10-15 s to the bootup time.
>
> cheers
> jd
>