Promise Ultra33 and 20gig Maxtor drives

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Michael Dobbs
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Joined: Nov 16 1999

I currently use a Promise Ultra33 card and 2 Maxtor 10gig drives. When I tried to add 2 extra drives (Maxtor 20gig UDMA 33/66) Wiondows will not load. The Maxtor site talks about this problem (difficulties on recognising 33/66 modes) and offers a fix - but this only works for disks connected directly to the motherboard - any ideas?

pcy
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Joined: Jul 6 1999

Michael,

Questions/ideas...

When you say "Windows will not Load", what exactly happens? How far does it get?

Also, are you booting off the disks on the Promise Ultra, or from a system disk connected directly to the motherboard.

Does the bios see the Promise Card and the disks on it with the mew Maxtors installed?

Could you have attached the new Maxtors in such a way that one of them has become the primary/boot disk?

I do not have an Ultra, but I do have a FastTrak, and though it generally works well it does produce some strange effects on some configurations.

Peter

Peter