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using ata133 controller card
Name: tonyme7 Date: September 1, 2004 at 18:50:32 Pacific OS: winxp pro CPU/Ram: 1ghz amd
Comment:
i was curious on how difficult it would be to install a 200gb hard drive thru a promise ata133 controller card. i was told after installing the pci card winxp would recognize it after post and the card would break the 137gb barrier on it's own. do i need any special updates would i have to do something with my bios. i'm using a an msi k7t turbo limited edition board with a 1ghz amd processor. any advice would be greatly appreciated
Name: XxxFrancisxxxUSA Date: September 1, 2004 at 18:56:31 Pacific
Reply:
My 160 broke the "barrier" on its own.
Should be that easy.
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Response Number 2
Name: egkenny Date: September 2, 2004 at 16:35:08 Pacific
Reply:
The Promise ATA133 controller card has it's own BIOS. After your motherboard's BIOS gets done then the Promise card's BIOS takes over and run's it's own drive detection. Once you are into Windows you will probably have to install the driver for the card. After the driver is installed the card will show up in list of "SCSI and RAID controllers". Depending upon the card and it's driver the drives may show up in the list of "Disk drives".
You can also boot from a hard drive connected to this card. In the BIOS for the motherboard select "Boot from SCSI" or "Boot from other". You will have to check the motherboard manual for the exact option.
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Response Number 3
Name: tonyme7 Date: September 3, 2004 at 10:00:20 Pacific
Reply:
hey thanks sorry for the delay i will be getting the controller card and new hard drive tonight so cross your fingers. but it looks like i shouldn't have any problems.. thanks again
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