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Problem with Skymaster ATA 133 RAID controller and A7N8X-E Deluxe
Have added above to system as I need the extra IDE controller (I have
a A7V133 and got hooked on the standard IDE and Promise IDE controllers) When I add a HDD to the Skymaster controller, the system won't boot. A boot floppy for example starts to load, but then stops short of actually booting. With a CD-ROM added to the Skymaster the system boots WinXP normally and I can see the CD-ROM in Windows and read from it etc. What is wrong? jd |
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In article , Jimmy Dean
wrote: Have added above to system as I need the extra IDE controller (I have a A7V133 and got hooked on the standard IDE and Promise IDE controllers) When I add a HDD to the Skymaster controller, the system won't boot. A boot floppy for example starts to load, but then stops short of actually booting. With a CD-ROM added to the Skymaster the system boots WinXP normally and I can see the CD-ROM in Windows and read from it etc. What is wrong? jd I don't know if Skymaster has a web site, but tracing the product down, it looks to be popular in Australia. One site mentions it has a Silicon Image controller on it, which would possibly lead here. CMD is a company that Silicon Image bought (or vice versa, don't know the details), and apparently the 0680 can be "abused" to make a software RAID or can be used as an ATA controller. http://www.siimage.com/products/sii0680.asp The Siimage page says a default Microsoft IDE driver will work ? The weak link, will be the BIOS flashed into the IDE controller. The BIOS would have support for whatever I/O calls are needed at boot time, and perhaps when the BIOS is loaded from the card, there is a conflict or a problem with that BIOS. I would try and find a flasher for the card, and try to bring it up to date. It pays to always check out a company making hardware (Skymaster in this case), to make sure they have a support page, that they have a good history in Google, and that the support page appears to have regularly updated firmware/drivers. I'm sure you paid good money for that card, and probably could have had a Promise/Highpoint/Adaptec/whatever in its place. I think this post in Google, found by searching for CMD0680 says it all. I don't think this needs to be translated :-( "Dann ist alles klar. CMD-Controller sind seit jeher buggy und inperformant (dafuer halt sehr billig). Ich kann nur sagen: Finger weg davon. Man hat nichts als Aerger und Performance-Probleme." HTH, Paul |
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