Promise Ultra100 & Windows 2000 Pro SP1
I just got the card today. I have an Abit BE6-II and had 2 hd's on the hpt366 and am running windows 2000 pro with SP1. I first installed the card in ide slot 5 with the hpt enabled. Rebooted and loaded the 1.
I just got the card today. I have an Abit BE6-II and had 2 hd's on the hpt366 and am running windows 2000 pro with SP1. I first installed the card in ide slot 5 with the hpt enabled. Rebooted and loaded the 1.0 drivers. Instead of restarting then, I removed the hpt366 from device manager. So far no problem...
I then shut down, disconnected the hd's from the hpt366 and connected them to separate channels on the ata100 card with the system drive on the first channel and then restarted the computer, went into the bios and disabled the hpt366 controller- then restarted the computer.
Windows 2000 booted just fine to the GUI, logged me in, etc... and as the remainder of the programs were loaded from device manager, BANG - bsod - kmode exception caused by ntfs.sys (I am using fat32 on both hard drives).
I then rebooted the computer and windows 2000 would not restart as it indicated that a file (sorry, forgot the name) would not load because it was corrupted or missing. I had not created ERD's (that'll learn me - lol), but decided to go back to the hpt366's and restore the system drive using Ghost.
The only thing that I figure could have caused this was the fact that the system drive had been repartitioned into 2 partitions by Partition Magic some time ago (with no difficulties) and there are apparently problems with partition magic - though I figured that this pertained to using Partition Magic when the drive was connected to the Promise controller. One other thing could be the fact that I have a usr sportster voice in the isa slot.
Aside from the config I mentioned, I have a PIII-650, 192mb pc100, 2 quantum fireball kx hd's, a voodoo3 agp, wintv in the first pci slot, and sblive in the second pci slot, and a 3com NIC in the 4th slot.
I would appreciate any advice you folks might be able to provide. Thanks in advance!
Shrink
I then shut down, disconnected the hd's from the hpt366 and connected them to separate channels on the ata100 card with the system drive on the first channel and then restarted the computer, went into the bios and disabled the hpt366 controller- then restarted the computer.
Windows 2000 booted just fine to the GUI, logged me in, etc... and as the remainder of the programs were loaded from device manager, BANG - bsod - kmode exception caused by ntfs.sys (I am using fat32 on both hard drives).
I then rebooted the computer and windows 2000 would not restart as it indicated that a file (sorry, forgot the name) would not load because it was corrupted or missing. I had not created ERD's (that'll learn me - lol), but decided to go back to the hpt366's and restore the system drive using Ghost.
The only thing that I figure could have caused this was the fact that the system drive had been repartitioned into 2 partitions by Partition Magic some time ago (with no difficulties) and there are apparently problems with partition magic - though I figured that this pertained to using Partition Magic when the drive was connected to the Promise controller. One other thing could be the fact that I have a usr sportster voice in the isa slot.
Aside from the config I mentioned, I have a PIII-650, 192mb pc100, 2 quantum fireball kx hd's, a voodoo3 agp, wintv in the first pci slot, and sblive in the second pci slot, and a 3com NIC in the 4th slot.
I would appreciate any advice you folks might be able to provide. Thanks in advance!
Shrink
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Sorry Shrink, this is not a post to help you out, rather it's a post that I'm about to be in the same boat: I ordered a Promise Ultra100 yesterday.
I'm moving from a Promise Ultra66 with a 20.5GB to the Promise Ultra100 with a new 30.6GB drive. I'm hoping to use PowerQuest DriveCopy to copy the contents of the 20GB to the 30GB and then use PowerQuest Partition Magic to resize the copied partitions to match the new hd size.
Any suggestions on the exact transformation sequence?
Hoping for help!
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J. Byron Todd
Computer Consultant
byron@toddcomp.com
Todd Computer Solutions
I'm moving from a Promise Ultra66 with a 20.5GB to the Promise Ultra100 with a new 30.6GB drive. I'm hoping to use PowerQuest DriveCopy to copy the contents of the 20GB to the 30GB and then use PowerQuest Partition Magic to resize the copied partitions to match the new hd size.
Any suggestions on the exact transformation sequence?
Hoping for help!
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J. Byron Todd
Computer Consultant
byron@toddcomp.com
Todd Computer Solutions
Byron - if I knew i'd tell you 
Check out Promise's website concerning disk overlay utilities, in addition to Partition Magic. There are apparently problems with partition magic and this controller that are currently being worked out. However, they are pretty vague about it. I am going to try a few different things this evening and will post if I find a way of getting it to work.
Shrink
Check out Promise's website concerning disk overlay utilities, in addition to Partition Magic. There are apparently problems with partition magic and this controller that are currently being worked out. However, they are pretty vague about it. I am going to try a few different things this evening and will post if I find a way of getting it to work.
Shrink
Shrink the Promise Ultra100 & Ultra66 work like SCSI card which don't use int13 so it best to put it on IRQ11 or PCI slot2.
IRQ Number Device
15 3dfx Voodoo5
15 Hauppauge WinTV 878/9 WDM Video Driver
15 Hauppauge WinTV 878/9 WDM Audio Driver
14 Primary IDE Channel for my (CDROM)
13 Numeric data processor
12 Free
11 Win2000 Promise Ultra66 IDE Controller
10 Creative SB Live! Value (WDM)
9 Free
8 System CMOS/real time clock
7 Printer Port (LPT1)
6 Standard floppy disk controller
5 Intel 82371AB/EB PCI to USB Universal Host Controller
5 Linksys LNE100TX Fast Ethernet Adapter
4 Free
3 Free
2 System CMOS/real time clock
1 PC/AT PS/2 Keyboard (84-Key)
[This message has been edited by SHS (edited 05 August 2000).]
IRQ Number Device
15 3dfx Voodoo5
15 Hauppauge WinTV 878/9 WDM Video Driver
15 Hauppauge WinTV 878/9 WDM Audio Driver
14 Primary IDE Channel for my (CDROM)
13 Numeric data processor
12 Free
11 Win2000 Promise Ultra66 IDE Controller
10 Creative SB Live! Value (WDM)
9 Free
8 System CMOS/real time clock
7 Printer Port (LPT1)
6 Standard floppy disk controller
5 Intel 82371AB/EB PCI to USB Universal Host Controller
5 Linksys LNE100TX Fast Ethernet Adapter
4 Free
3 Free
2 System CMOS/real time clock
1 PC/AT PS/2 Keyboard (84-Key)
[This message has been edited by SHS (edited 05 August 2000).]
SHS - sorry but I don't want to rip my system apart again to get the debug message <g>. I have a quantum fireball KX 20gig hd. It was a wierd message and I received it on 4 separate attempts at rebooting - wierd because it started with "debug error" (or something to that effect) followed by random text and ascii characters with spaces in between and ran about 5 lines. Nothing intelligeble. Why do you ask? I also copied the i386 dir to my hd and attempted to run winnt.exe but it wouldn't even run (just hung the computer).
Shrink
Shrink
Shrink, I may be just a tad bit better off than you. I contacted Promise support and was told that since the Ultra100 and Ultra66 use the same drivers, that I should be able to swap out the Ultra66 for the Ultra100 without any issues.
Crossing my fingers... (and waiting for the IBM drive to get here - it's due Wednesday, while the Ultra100 got here this morning.)
I'll let you know how it goes.
Crossing my fingers... (and waiting for the IBM drive to get here - it's due Wednesday, while the Ultra100 got here this morning.)
I'll let you know how it goes.
they use the same drivers??? I wish I knew that. Promise tech support never returned my email :-( Let me know how it goes - though I am pretty sure I have a defective card.
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Shrink
92% of the things we worry about don't happen - but the other 8% DO!
PIII 650@850
BE6-II Mobo with 192 mb ram
20 gig Quantum KX 8 gig Quantum CR
SBlive Value
Voodooo3 3000 AGP
... and a bunch of USB Stuff
Windows 2000 Pro Retail
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Shrink
92% of the things we worry about don't happen - but the other 8% DO!
PIII 650@850
BE6-II Mobo with 192 mb ram
20 gig Quantum KX 8 gig Quantum CR
SBlive Value
Voodooo3 3000 AGP
... and a bunch of USB Stuff
Windows 2000 Pro Retail
I'm running a Promise ATA100 controller card under 2k with no problems at all I have 2 IBM drives, both as masters on the card.
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System:
Asus P2B-D
Dual PIII 700mHz Slot 1
256 mb ram
30.7G ATA100 IBM HDD(2)
Promise ATA100 Controller
Matrox Millenium G400 MAX
CD CDR (all masters)
19" Syncmaster (.20 dpp)
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System:
Asus P2B-D
Dual PIII 700mHz Slot 1
256 mb ram
30.7G ATA100 IBM HDD(2)
Promise ATA100 Controller
Matrox Millenium G400 MAX
CD CDR (all masters)
19" Syncmaster (.20 dpp)
