Help with ATA controller and HD

[Guest_imported]

This is my situation:

I have a 2 Channel Ultra ATA/100 PCI IDE Card (PCI2IDE100) Made by Startech. With it I’m trying to run a Maxtor ATA 133/100 40 GB drive (6L040J2). My MB is an ASUS MB (P/I-P55TVP4 ) BIOS version 0204 (latest one)
Win98, Intel 200 MHz, 64MB of EDO ram, ATI Xpert98 8MB Vid card, SB16, Aopen NIC
This has happened even after a format and only the vid on the board. I reserved IRQ 9 (have also tried another slot and other IRQ) for card. Was able to load drivers and rebooted. Card was in while loaded to normal mode. Shutdown and connected the drive...would not boot to normal mode. Can boot to safe mode. Able to use the drive in normal mode while it runs in MS-DOS compatibility mode. To do this, I blow away the device manager entry for the card and not load it when getting back to normal. Windows sees all the drive. I’m able to format fine. Have loaded files to it but it's very slow. I’ve used the drivers from CMD Technologies (chip maker) and Startech. Bios on card is version 1.86
I’ve disabled both IDEs on the board, disabled them in windows. No bangs in the device manager. I run the drive alone on the primary channel of the card.
Anybody please help!!

Thanks
B

 

[dinosnake]

If you 'reserved IRQ 9 for card' then the card probably isn't using it. When you set 'reserve' for a IRQ in the BIOS it takes the IRQ away from the PCI bus - no card can automatically link to it. This is to maintain compatibility with old ISA cards that used jumpers - once the jumper was set to the IRQ reserved away from the PCI PnP system it would grab that correct IRQ.

Do you mean that you implicitly specified a IRQ for the slot by setting the Slot 1/2/3/4 IRQ? Do not set it in the bottom part of the screen; the IRQ's should be set to 'No/ICU' unless you do have a ISA card that needs the interrupt.

Try removing the motherboard's IDE system completely from Windows. By disabling the IDE channel in the Device Manager you are telling it not to load 32 bit drivers - but Windows will still load 16 bit real mode drivers to operate the drives in failsafe. Most people don't have a second IDE card installed and you have to start Windows somehow. You'll have to pull the entries in Safe Mode.

Let me know - other things are possible. Your mileage may vary...