?PCI Mass storage controller

[StorminJ]

I am having a problem with my HD. It seems that there are conflicts with my HD and my mobo. When I go into the system to look for conflicts I get "? PCI Mass Storage Controller". I tried looking on the ASUS web site but couldin't find anything. I have heard when you have an old hard drive (maxtor 7GB) going to a new MoBo (Asus A7V) you can sometimes have this problem but I have no way of correcting this yet. I guess it might be on my hard drive even though I formatted it. Has anyone heard of this before?

 

[BrainStorm]

It is your promise ATA-100 controller, update the driver with the one at ASUS website for better performance and stability.

Hope that helps!

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[FatBurger]

I doubt it's the IDE controller. Mass storage generally means it's a SCSI/RAID card.
But he probably doesn't have one, or he would have said so.

This problem occurs in W2k, and nobody seems to know why. If it isn't causing any problems in actually using it, then I wouldn't worry too much.

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[lhgpoobaa]

do u mean the promise controller?
install the up to date promise drivers & you should be right.

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[StorminJ]

I do have problems occassionally, like freeze's and the like.

I am going to try to update the driver but am sceptical. I have updated before but maybe didn't get the promise driver.

 

[BrainStorm]

I'm certain it is your promise controller, it happened to me. I just went to Asus website, downloaded the promise driver, updated in Device manager and voilà! Maybe your lockups problem is not related to this but it surely can help.

Hope that helps!

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[CALV]

has that board onboard raid? from the above replies it sounds like it, in which case that IS the mass storage controller, same thing on mine (abit kt7a raid), I just cant be bothered to install the drivers!!


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[FatBurger]

Assuming you don't use the other two channels, you don't need to. I have the KT7a-RAID too.

I think you're right, it's onboard RAID.

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[Guest]

When i installed Win98 on my machine yesterday, i also had a few devices listed with a ? in front of them.
one of them was the PCI Mass Storage Controller and i got it fixed with installing the latest Highpoint drivers, but that is for my Abit KT7 Raid board.
So i could conclude that it is your RAID controller that needs (new) drivers.

 

[327goat]

It's definitely the Promise ATA-100 controler like Brainstorm says. I had the exact same problem. Also if you check your hard drive properties, it will most likely tell you that you're running in MS-DOS compatibility mode. Install the Promise controler properly and both problems should dissapear.

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