Not sure whether this is the appropriate board to be posting this, so if it is, forgive me. :^)
I'm just wondering whether anyone has any experience using a Promise Ultra100 TX2 ATA100 controller card, or virtually any other PCI controller card, that can potentially answer a few questions for me.
Firstly, I'm planning on adding a new drive to my system and it will interface with this card (don't have either yet), and will dual-boot WinXP and Slackware. However, if the MBR is on the new drive, how will the system know to look on that card for the MBR? My system is about 3 years old (ASUS P5A with the latest BIOS... from September 1999), and since ATA100 was only on the drawing boards back then, I just wonder how this will all work.
Secondly, is it wise, or possible, to put all my existing drives (Fujitsu 8.4 ATA33 HD, 32x CD-ROM, 12x4x32x CD-RW) on the new controller, or should I only put the new ATA100 drive on the ATA100 controller and leave everything else on the onboard IDE channels?
Thanks,
- skubik.
I'm just wondering whether anyone has any experience using a Promise Ultra100 TX2 ATA100 controller card, or virtually any other PCI controller card, that can potentially answer a few questions for me.
Firstly, I'm planning on adding a new drive to my system and it will interface with this card (don't have either yet), and will dual-boot WinXP and Slackware. However, if the MBR is on the new drive, how will the system know to look on that card for the MBR? My system is about 3 years old (ASUS P5A with the latest BIOS... from September 1999), and since ATA100 was only on the drawing boards back then, I just wonder how this will all work.
Secondly, is it wise, or possible, to put all my existing drives (Fujitsu 8.4 ATA33 HD, 32x CD-ROM, 12x4x32x CD-RW) on the new controller, or should I only put the new ATA100 drive on the ATA100 controller and leave everything else on the onboard IDE channels?
Thanks,
- skubik.