First post, by trodas
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I was banging my head currently on how to give the Asus TXP4-X maniboard a fast HDD. I get the PATA to CF card adapter and it was total disaster. With impossibility of flipping the cursed fixed bit, the card does not act as HDD and that it is. Game over for this variant, even on fast computer it prove effectively capable of reasonable speeds:
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(SanDisk Extreme PRO 32G CF card + DeLock 91620 PATA to CF adapter on ASRock 775Dual-VSTA with 3.8GHz P4)
...on Asus TXP4-X it was total disaster with similar speeds as this old 512MB card is showing:
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Mainly the lack of DMA on the "UDMA 7" card is the biggest problem.
So I give up and get a PATA to SATA adapter, SanDisk 120G (must be to be under the 128G limit with patched bios) Ultra II SSD and now I figuring out how to make it all work. It does NOT WORK. The SSD is well detected during POST and things seems to work rather nicely (I can install ANY operating system on it, WinNT, WinXP...) but it does NOT BOOT from it after the copy files part of install requires reboot:
(SanDisk Ultra II 120G (SDSSDHII-120G), PATA to SATA bi-derectional adapter from Gembird, chipset JM20330, should do even hot-swap for non bootable devices)
I tried many disk-setup programs, from old fdisk (frisk - reboot - format c: /s - reboot = no boot from the HDD) thru Windows setup (delate partition, create partition) to Acronis on Hiren Boot CD 8.6 (my favorite Mini Tool Partition Wizard Pro BOOT CD (allign SSD) does not work on the board... with AMD K5 PR75 in it right now), yet it always fail to boot from the SSD. I have no idea what to do now and how can I prepare the SSD to get it booting. I *very* much want to get fast HDD operations with DMA ON... so I trying everything, but nothing seems to work.
That is second time when PATA - SATA conversion proved unbootable for me. First case - Dell OptiPlex GX110. Same result, different convertor used. Working, but NOT booting...
Sigh.
Anyone is having any helpfull suggestions?
And no, HDD autodetect in bios freeze the bios. Not even Esc helps to get me off from the neverending loop...
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