- New Abit ATA66 Drivers -

Get em here: To everyone talking and complaining (including me) about no hibernation, it works now on my bp6. Standby also seems to work except it does'nt shut the disks off, it's getting there! He does'nt want to talk anymore, realy, he's done talking, he's leaving the building.

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Get em here: ftp://ftp.abit.com.tw/pub/beta/bp6/driver/366_1231_W2K.zip
 
To everyone talking and complaining (including me) about no hibernation, it works now on my bp6. Standby also seems to work except it does'nt shut the disks off, it's getting there!
 
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Anyone try these out? after reinstalling w2k multiple times because of bad drivers and ****, I'm scared..
 
I know for a fact that these will not enable standby or hibernation support for the hpt366(since the damn chip doesn't support these functions). Did abit fix it so that these features are turned off?
 
also.. how's the transfer rate? any better/slower/niether?
 
merci.
 
mr_yellow

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I just tried them.
 
You are correct about hibernation/standby. The error that was plaguing me previously ("secondary IDE device driver is preventing the system from entering hibernation/standby mode....") still exists, though the rev history says they fixed it:
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Revision History:
 
rev 1.23.1 03/12/2000 (internal)
 
o Fix Windows 2000 hibernate mode on secondary channel
o Add checking revision number to identify different HPT3xx
series products
o This version must comply with new HPT366 BIOS revsion 1.24
or above
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As for the rest, I do not have firm results, only been running them for 10 minutes. What is interesting is that there is also a hpt370.inf file in there, though none of the documentation mentions it....
 
What is that?
 
 
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-AciD
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Hardware:
BP6 running QQ Beta BIOS
Dual Celeron 366 @ 566MHZ
128MB Samsung -GL
IBM UDMA66 13.6g
WDC UDMA33 5.1g
Toshiba 32x
OTI Socrates 2x2x6x
V3-2000-AGP clocked @ 166
SB AWE64 Value
Hayes V90 Int. Spk Phone
>-----------------------<
Software:
Win2K Pro Retail (2195)
Office 2000 Premium
NA ViruScan NT 4.03a
Mobo Monitor 4.10

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Hmmm can't use hibernation? I guess I'm a lucky one then, it works fine. I have both my drives on the first ATA66 channel and a nice squeaky clean install of win2k with a BP6/QQ I bought last thursday, if that makes a difference.
 
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I already this drivers three days ago. Hibernation works perfectly with these drivers on my another machine, but on this, i can't because it say that my advansys scsi card prevents it.
 
Any ideas? Thanks!

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About this HPT370 inf file, I suspect there is a new controller in the pipe...

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So is it a general concensus that if you have ata66 drives on the hpt366 controller, hibernation/standby will only work if the drives are on the first IDE channel?
 
So it's a no go if the second ide channel has drive(ata33 or 66)??
 
ALSO. i just want to check...
 
Jerry:
Is your ata66 drive your BOOT drive?
 
thanks

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What i would like to know is what is meant by saying that these drivers "must comply with hpt366 bios revision 1.24 or above". There is no such revision... the latest hpt366 bios revision is embedded in the latest qq bios and thats 1.22, isn't it?
 
daniel

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As I said:
Abit brand new HotRod 100 controller=HPT370 + bios 1.24 ... eh eh...
It seems this new driver is not for us owners of BP6 mobos ???

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I have a thought...
This QQ bios is still beta, is not it?
Maybe official release will have 1.24 bios built-in. Then we may have better support with the new bios and the new driver

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Mr yellow,
Yes I boot off a Quantum ata66 drive.
 
That 1.24 thing is kinda odd is'nt it?

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Yeah, a 1.23 driver release saying it must be compliant with 1.24 or above? WTF?
 
On my system, solo UDMA 66 drive on the HPT controller as boot drive, and I've got a UDMA 33 on primary ide master, got a cdrom and CD-RW on secondary ide...
 
Jerry, are you running MPS? 1.1 or 1.4? I'm running 1.1 now (was having the USB issues), haven't "refreshed" my install of windows 2k with 1.4 under the qq bios yet...wondering if that's a factor...already did it once to get ACPI, forgot to switch MPS value, gotta do it again,I guess....
 
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-AciD
>-----------------------<
Hardware:
BP6 running QQ Beta BIOS
Dual Celeron 366 @ 566MHZ
128MB Samsung -GL
IBM UDMA66 13.6g
WDC UDMA33 5.1g
Toshiba 32x
OTI Socrates 2x2x6x
V3-2000-AGP clocked @ 166
SB AWE64 Value
Hayes V90 Int. Spk Phone
>-----------------------<
Software:
Win2K Pro Retail (2195)
Office 2000 Premium
NA ViruScan NT 4.03a
Mobo Monitor 4.10

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Yep running mps 1.4 too. Goodluck acid

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I am a newbie at this forum so can someone please explain whats the MPS thing?
also have that problem with q3 locking up more than often.
for the sake of argument a few days ago i had the chance to change my hd to a WD ATA66 15gb 7200rpm one, but the thing wouldnt work straight on my bp6, it kept locking everything up. maybe this info helps settle down some nervous heads with the same problem. :-P
 
Heres my system specs:
 
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Abit BP6 running QQ Bios
Dual 500 celerons
192mb ram
creative geforce ddr
WD UDMA66 13.6gb
SB Live!
Zoltrix 56k modem (no support in win2k)
acer cdrw
40x cdrom
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dual boot win98/win2k

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I finally got the courage to try out the 1.231 drivers.
 
They worked for me! yay.. Hibernation worked and so did standby. I tried it only once and I'm amazed yet too scared to even try it again.. The last time i hibernated with the 1.22 drivers,my FAT for corrupted. C: went straight to hell..
 
my setup
Dual celeron 366@550
BP6 w/QQ MPS1.4
256 RAM
Quantum 13gig ata66 on IDE3
Quantum 6gig ata33 on IDE4
W2k installed and boots from IDE3
 
Good luck on your endevours.