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General Category => Tech Clinic => Topic started by: Dave on January 28, 2005, 07:34:20 PM
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I ran into this problem and was wondering what I was doing wrong.
I have an I-Will Mobo with 2 standard IDE controller ports and 2 ATA 133 controller ports.
I recently fried my other computers motherboard so I needed to take the storage HDD out of it and put it the computer with the I-Will mobo. In it I have 2 IDE cd-roms and 2 HDD. One of those HDD was on the ATA 133 controler. So in therory I could have 1 more standard IDE device and 3 more ATA 133 devices. I can only get 1 ATA 133 device on a channel to work. All my HDD are 133 and the jumpers have been set correctly. This I know because I have set them in every possible configuration. Here is how I think it should have worked. Both drives were cable select the drive at the end of the cable was the primary drive it also held the OS. The second drive was also set to cable select and was on the secondary position on the cable (the cables were marked as such from factory and are capable of ATA 133 devices). When only the drive that contained the OS was connected the machine would boot fine no matter what position on the cable it was plugged (end of cable or secondary position). Once I plugged in the second drive and tried to boot, the WIndows XP screen with the blue bar would come on and it would never make it past that. The blue bar would continue to move across the screen.
Do the ATA 133 controller port handle 2 devices per channel like the standard IDE?
I ended up adding the storage HDD to the standard IDE. That was what I did in the first place but for some reason I ran into the problem of the Windows XP screen with the blue bar and never made it past that. That is why I tried to connect it to the ATA 133 controller. After failing at that I went back to the Standard IDE and it worked the second time around.