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Edit: Problem solved, details in thread #3
I'm testing a Promise Ultra100TX2 IDE controller card. I've plugged my IDE HDD (300gb, but "jumper capped" to 32gb) and ATAPI CD in to IDE 1 and 2 slots respectively. But I can't seem to get the controller card to do anything useful, such as boot from the hard disc. When I boot up, I see this message:
Auto detecting Pri Master...IDE Hard Disk.
And after an unhealthy delay, the BIOS eventually shows some useful information:
Primary master - HDD size 137448mb
Secondary master - ATAPI CDROM
PCI slot 2 - mass storage device, irq 15
But then it says:
Searching for boot record from IDE-0 .. not found
Boot failure
Reboot and select proper boot device
(etc)
I wonder why it’s searching for IDE-0? Why 0? I thought my IDE drives started at 1…2,3,4
I've messed around with various options in the BIOS, but to be honest, I just don't know what I'm doing. I went to Promise's website, and read that your mobo must be PCI 2.1 and support bus mastering. Well that's 2 thumbs up - no problems there.
Some relevant looking things I spotted in the BIOS -
1st boot device: I tried setting this to various things, including SCSI.
off board PCI IDE Card : I've set this to Slot 2, where my card is. (Another option is “auto”.)
off board PCI IDE Primary IRQ : I’m not sure what option to select - disabled / INTA / INTB / INTC / INTD / hardwired
off board PCI IDE Secondary IRQ : exactly as above.
onboard IDE : I've set this to disabled, as there’s nothing plugged in to the onboard IDE ports.
Any thoughts would be very gratefully received! 😀
PS - photo included just for fun. I've since removed the SB card, and repositioned the controller card to slot number 2.