I recently replaced a Samsung 20GB HDD with a Seagate 80GB HDD and my K7V Dragon Plus system has not worked correctly since. My problems are the following: (1) system will not shut down completely using the windows start button. I have to power down using the off switch (2) Microsoft Encarta 2004 hangs every time on its splash screen when lauched and (3) right-clicking a drive letter in Windows Explorer and selecting properties in order to get information on remaining space causes the sytem to lock up. Here is how my drives were configured when working versus how they are set up now: Working Not Working ------------------------------------------- --------------------------------- IDE Channel Master Slave Master Slave ----------- ------------- ------------ ----------------- -------------- 1 56X Afreey CDR None 56X Afreey CDR None 2 Plextor CDRW None Plextor CDRW None 3 IBM Deskstar 80GB Samsung 20GB IBM Deskstar 80GB ATAPI Zip 4 ATAPI 100MB Zip None Seagate 'cuda 80GB None I am using the Ultra drivers and no RAID on the Promise controller (3 & 4). I originally replaced my 20GB Samsung with the Seagate 80GB as the slave to IDE channel 3. However, I could not get past the "Verifying DMI Pool Data" at Windows 98SE startup so I reconfigured as above which enabled me to start up but now I have the problems previously mentioned. I see that there is a 120GB hard drive limit for the Soyo Dragon Plus but I assumed that meant per drive not for the overall system. My IBM (drive 0) is partitioned into 6 pieces none of which are over 20GB. I partitioned the Seagate into a 20GB and 60GB piece. Is there some issue with this particular motherboard and drive sizes or with Seagate in particular? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. W. Alan Lemly
I corrected my own problem by simply swapping the IDE 4 cable (80GB Seagate master, Zip slave) with the IDE 1 cable (Afreey 56X CDR master no slave). I'm not sure if the Promise controller did not like the slaved Zip drive or having both 80GB IDE HDDs on it. It worked fine when the Zip was on IDE 4 by itself with an 80GB and 20GB master/slave HDDs on IDE 3. The Soyo Tech Support folks say that the Promise controller is only for HDDs which I understand but my CDR seems to work ok by itself on IDE 4. Here is a recap of the working arrangement: IDE 1 - 80GB Seagate master, Zip Drive slave IDE 2 - Plextor CDRW master, no slave IDE 3 - 80GB IBM master, no slave IDE 4 - Afreey 56X CDR master, no slave Alan
On D+ Promise controller manage optical drives perfect. it's newer boards that doesn't cope with them. I used to have 3 drives on promise( CD ROM, CDRW and DVD ROM) working perfect. But i've heard that if you connect, say, 80 G HDD with ultra ata 100 speed and some slow drive (zip) on the same cable, then either both devices run with slow speed or don't run at all. (You do have 80 wire cable for HDD, do you?)
I do not know about the Promise Controller but the Highpoint will only see hard drives, no cd-rom etc. Dave
