Newbie building pc

[rudy2larg]

i am currently trying to add a new hard drive to my system. i have an asus a7v motherboard. It has the optional ata/100 controller buit-in. I currently have a 30gb maxtor hard drive as the master on the primary ide and a dvd rom drive as the slave. on the secondary ide i have a cd-writer and a ls-120 drive. i just bought a 30gb western digital to add to the system. i figured i could just plug the new hd into the ata/100 ide and it would work. i guess i am an idiot. the new hard drive is ata/100 compatible, but i do not know how to set up the new drive. Do i need to get a controller card? Please help

The mb has a total of 4 ide slots 2 of them being ata/100. after i install promise driver and plug in hard drive, what do i do next? the drive shows up in my device manager under disk drives as a scsi. is this correct? How do i use western digitals software to partition and format this new drive?

[Edited by rudy2larg on 01-02-2001 at 08:14 PM]

[lovitz]

i don't think you need another controller because your motherboard allready has one.

[odhora]

You can use LPT External HDD Drive.

[Edited by odhora on 01-02-2001 at 05:34 PM]

[Xayd]

Is the drive detected by the Promise controller (it should show it when you boot)? If not, check your master/slave settings. If it's on the second ATA100 slot alone it should be master. If it is detected, have you fdisked and formatted it?

Xayd

[Alfie]

With the Asus A7V board,it's neccessary to install the Promise drivers(found on the cd that came with the motherboard)Once the drivers are installed and the Promise controller shows under scsi devices in Device manager and has been assigned an IRQ of it's own,
you can install your new hard drive.
Make sure you use the 80 wire special cable for udma66\100,make sure the blue end goes to motherboard and the hard drive is connected to the end of cable.Set the hard drive to CS(cable select)
If this device is to be your primary disk(the one the system boots with)you must change in bios the boot sequence.
scsi\ide first,then your other bootable devices.
Windows likes only one device to be active,perhaps someone could point out the best procedure to follow.
If the device is to be used as a back up or secondary device,leave it non active and use it that way.

[rudy2larg]

Why set the jumper to cable select, why not master? If it is going to be the master on the ata/100 ide channel?

[Alfie]

This is taken from the Quantum site,they invented udma66\100,so I assume they know what they're talking about.

"In order to achieve the Ultra ATA/66 transfer speed, you must have a system and BIOS that will support Ultra ATA/66. The correct drivers must be loaded, and an Ultra ATA specific data cable must be used. The Ultra ATA cables use the Cable Select method rather than a master / slave scheme, so the drive must be jumpered to enable Cable Select"

Although this only talks about udma66,it also applies to udma100

[rudy2larg]

Now how do i use the western digital software to partition and format? when i boot with the disk that came in the retail box it only detects my bootup hard drive and not the new one

[glc]

Put the drive on the standard primary controller and use the setup software. When it's partitioned and formatted, you can then move it to the ATA-100 controller and put your boot drive back where it was. Then you can install the Promise drivers.

Now - here is what you might want to do........your 30 gig Maxtor is likely ATA-66. If you want to keep it as your boot drive, put it on the primary ATA-100 with an 80 wire cable and rejumper it to cable select. Then put your new ATA-100 drive on the secondary ATA-100 controller with an 80 wire cable, again jumpering it to cable select. Then redistribute your DVD, cd writer, and LS-120 among the 2 standard controllers. Set the bios to boot from SCSI first and it will boot from whatever drive is on the primary ATA-100. This will give you maximum efficiency and speed.

[rudy2larg]

thanx to you all i now have an up and running 60gb computer! Thanx everyone