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Adding ATA 133 Controller Card
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. I have tried different slots, tried running the new drive as master, slave, cable select....no good. The SIIG card has several jumpers (1) one that changes the card from PCI to RAID.....tried both. Also jumper for primary and secondary channel. Not sure what they are for, but they came without jumpers installed. I have scoured the USENET and found that most people recommend fooling the PC by making the bios boot from SCSI. I cannot find that option on my PC. One option I am considering is canning the IOMEGA ZIP, and adding the new MAXTOR to the onboard controller. Am I giving up too easy? Any advice is welcome. Mike Coleman |
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