I need additional IDE support and decided to go the add-on route with a generic card with Silicon Image chip. All I want is to be able to switch a Zip drive to the card so I can add a backup hard drive to mainboard. I am not wanting RAID option, just manual backup of system. I have an

ECS K7S5A mainboard
1333 AMD CPU
512 PC133 RAM
ATI 7000 Video card
Samsung SV4002H (40.06 G HD
External Sport-Modem

I installed the card and then the drivers for non-RAID setup, shut the system down, connected the Zip drive and re-powered. The SI BIOS recognizes the Zip drive, but Win2000 will not start the card. System check shows the infamous yellow "!". I have also tried the Samsung on the card and tried to bootup using SCSI boot option (necessary for an IDE card bootup configuration). Different jumper settings were tried, but only Cable Select for Samsung and Zip will be recognized when used as individual drive connections. SI help here is minimal, since they did not make the card. Jumpers on card are hard-wired. RAID drivers start card OK.

Also, system will not boot past the blue screen with Mandrake Linux option boot. Am I missing something on installation of card or drives?

I have a very similar configuration (but with XP). Instead of using plain IDE feature on the controller, I elected RAID. After some struggling, I managed to start the RAID process. When completed, I rebooted the system. XP don't "see" the second drive anymore. When attempting to boot from the second alone (with the first drive disconnected), system boots to the initial XP screen with the "flashing processing bar" and jumped to a blue screen displaying a 3/4 page message of problem booting up and suggested to reboot the system again. Followed the suggestion to reboot, doesn't boot.