In the wee hour of 11:47 AM 5/14/01 -0400, Keith Thompson bequeathed such
tales as these:
>I have the same ATA card and after searching the net, found that its
>best to put the hard drives on the aTA and the CD/CDRW/DVD drives off
>the MB controller. The ATA/100 requires that the drive be ATA
>compatable. Believe that it will work down to ATA33 but I was able to
>update my origional drive (Western Digital) to an ATA66 so that they
>both work fine. I have a CD and a CDRW drive coupled to the secondary
>controller with the CDRW as master and the CD as slave. Works just
>great.
>I would question whether the DVD drive is ATA33 or higher and this may
>be the problem.
>
>Keith Thompson
>
>
>
>Ted Mozer wrote:
> >
> > Just installed a Maxtor ATA Card and a 30 Gig Maxtor Drive hung off of
> it as
> > a second hard drive. Mother board IDE bus has a 13 Gig Hard drive on one
> > connection and my CD-Rom/Zip drive on the other (master/slave). Wanted to
> > run a Sony DVD drive off the second connection of the Maxtor card as a
> > master. Card will not recognize the DVD and will not allow the computer to
> > boot with it attached. DVD is properly configured as a master. Any
> > advise??
>
Maxtor says any device to be connected to the controller be ATA100/66/33 or
EIDE compatible
http://www.maxtor.com/products/UltraATA100/TechSupport/specs/specifications.htm.
HTH
Peter Kaulback
I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.
Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
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