Promise Ultra100 TX2 Controller HD power-down

[Guest]

Hi,

I am using the Ultra 100 TX2 Controller to run two UDMA-66 HD's: Western
Digital (41 GB) and Quantum (15 GB). Now, since my system (WIN98SE) is on
another HD which is connected directly to the onboard IDE-controller (IBM
UDMA 100, 60GB) of my ASUS P4S333 board, it happens that the two other HD's
connected to the Promise-controller (which contain non-system relevant
files, only) are not being used for some time. For some reason they power
down and spin down after say some 15 minutes. When I then need data off them
they automatically power-up again.

All HD-power-down parameters in the board's bios as well as WIN98 are
disabled so I assume that the Promise-Controller itself tells the HD's to
power down.

Is there a way to switch this power-saving feature off, at all? First, I
always have to wait for the discs to power-up when I need them (which bugs
me), and second, the continuos off-on-off-on is definitely not going to
prolong my HDs' life.

Please help me in this matter!

Thanks from Germany

 

[labdog]

you havent a promise tool software which allows you to manage & modify the controller settings?


<i>if <b>you know</b> <font color=white>you don't know<font color=black>, the way could be more easy ...

 

[Guest]

...nope. The only thing I got with the card were the drivers which I have updated as well as the controller's BIOS. Even @ www.promise.come there is none such tool or utility which would enable me to alter or switch off the spin-down time of the drives... maybe there's a key to be pressed while booting to get into the controller's BIOS but I have no clue which key it might be let alone if it works at all...

 

[Guest]

This is what promise told me:

The Ultra serie doesn't support any power saving scheme, so if you didn't
enable it in Windows, maybe it's been enabled in the hard drives themselves
through the HDD manufacturer utilities.

-Maxime

Now, even @ WD's page I haven't found a utility to switch off the power-saving, and quantum doesn't support their HD's anymore. What next?

 

[labdog]

i think you have a power down enable directly on each drive.
whith your disk utility, try to check it & disable it for each disk.



<i>if <b>you know</b> <font color=white>you don't know<font color=black>, the way could be more easy ...<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Labdog on 05/07/02 02:56 PM.</EM></FONT></P>