Ultra100 IDE card 4

[intrepide]

Happy Holidays everyone !

I am running a Dell Dimension XPS T600r PIII with 384Mhz of RAM. OS is Win 98SE. I have a HP CD WRITER PLUS 9500b, a SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-148F, a IOMEGA 100 ZIP DRIVE, 3.5 FLOPPY (of course), main Hard drive is a Dell 40G. This is where the fun begins...

I added a second drive (Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 40G)I purchased a Ultra 100 IDE Card to get that missing IDE port. (My HP CD Writer is now hooked up to that card and nothing else is, the hard drives are using the same cable to the motherboard)

At Boot Up, I get these messages:

Ultra 100(tm) BIOS Version 2.00 (build 17)
(c) 1999-2000 Promise Technology, Inc.

D0 not detected
D1 Hewlett-Packard cd writer plus 9500b DMA 2
D2 not detected
D3 not detected

Ultra 100 BIOS is not installed


At this point, I get a long beep followed by 2 short ones.

I did put in the supplied driver. Do I have to manually tinker with the BIOS ? Everything seems to work fine, I have access to all my peripherals. It's that darn boot message that bothers me.

Anyone with some insight for poor little old me?

Thank you for at least reading me

Intrepide

 

[ANFPS26]

Plug the IDE cable into D0 instead of D1 and set the jumper to master. It's looking for a drive on the Primary-Master (D0). Also, I assume you installed the driver and bios for the controller card that came with it on a disk. I've got one of these controller cards but I have a hard drive and a burner working on it. I've never tried it with just a burner, but it should work.

Jim

 

[uvguy]

I have been using the Ultra100 card for a couple years now with my win98 system. The messages dumped by the card on bootup are normal and indicate the state of detection during boot from a shutdown. You might also notice on reboots (restarts) that nothing gets detected; in either case, everything still works great.

If you are worried about the message "Ultra 100 BIOS is not installed", this is because you 1) do not have a bootable disk detected on the card IDE and 2) you do not have your primary and secondary IDE disabled for booting. I don't believe the manual explains this but if you go a-googling you will find that all of this is completely normal operational characteristics.

 

[Blujacket]

Agreed, it works better to have the bootable hard drive on the add-in controller.

Saw an interesting situation with one on a Dell the other day where a network card [NIC] was installed by a wireless ISP and they got it on the same IRQ as the controller card, couldn't get any connection to the 'net above 4Kbps. Moved the NIC to a different IRQ and all was well, connects at over 400Kbps for a 384Kbps subscription.

 

[cdogg]

"Some" IDE controller cards (perhaps like the one you're using) have a built-in BIOS that works in conjunction to the BIOS on your motherboard. If the one on your motherboard is ancient (pre-1998), then there is a possibility that the two are not compatible.

You should have gotten a manual with the controller card that stated this in more detail. Sometimes flashing the BIOS on your motherboard to the latest revision release helps. Go out to the mobo's manufacturer's site for instructions and downloads.

If that doesn't work, get in touch with the controller card's tech support.

~cdogg
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