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Old September 21st 03, 04:14 AM
Stacey
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Michael L. Coleman wrote:

Need Hardware Wizard

I am not a hardware guru, but have built a few PC's. I have a Dell
Dimension 8100 with onboard controller, one 40 GB HDD, CD-ROM, DVD
burner and IOMEGA ZIP drive (total of four devices the max for my
onboard controller). I wanted to add a second fast hard drive for DVD
burning (very disappointed in DVD burning speed, but that's another
story). I bought a MAXTOR 40 GB drive and a SIIG ATA 133 PCI
controller card. I put the card in and installed the driver for it.
It shows up in the Device Manager as a SCSI controller. I connected
the new MAXTOR drive to the ATA 133 card by itself, but cannot get the
PC to see the new drive.


The PC doesn't see it or windows doesn't see it? When booting these cards
ussually have a "boot screen" which says 'press -blank- to enter setup' for
the card itself. Also most show them autodetecting the drive connected to
them. Does it get this far detecting the drive connected to it? If the card
doesn't see the drive, you might try no jumper as some drives/controllers
don't want any jumper if used as a single..

Your board might not boot from a PCI card controller but I'd be shocked if
it wouldn't as even some pentium 1 systems I've used these types of cards
will. If not you may have to use your other drive conected to the on board
controller for your "system" drive and use the other for storage/speed. To
get any real speed out of this new drive you do need ata100 or 133, 80 wire
cable and DMA enabled to get the most out of it.






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Stacey