Urgently Need Help!

s1ngs1ng · Post by **s1ngs1ng** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 10:48 am

Dear,

I have BP6 with latest RV Bios
I had 3 40Gb HDDs now i added one more 80Gb 8MB cache HDD

the HPT366 detected properly but the problem when the WinXP starting it just not moving (the bar, I mean)

What is the problem? Is the OS need to be fresh install again or not?

Thanks
ASAP!!!

hyperspace · Post by **hyperspace** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 11:07 am

Welcome to BP6.Com, s1ngs1ng !

What HPT366 driver revision are you using for WinXP? If it is an older version, you may want to remove the new hard drive and update the HPT366 drivers in WinXP. Then add the new hard drive to the controller.

s1ngs1ng · Post by **s1ngs1ng** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 8:35 pm

dear,

I am using the latest driver version 1.30 but it still doesn't work

i can't get in to the winxp, once i take off the new HDD it works

my HDD is WD 80gb 7200rpm 8MB cache

cheers

Post by **Derek** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 10:34 pm

Are you booting off of the new HD?

RRLedford · Post by **RRLedford** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 12:35 am

If you even do get it to to work initially, it will almost certainly screw up the drive soon after. Don't waste your time troubleshooting HPT366 problems running up to date drives. Only appropriate response is to retire it & install a Promise ATA100/133 card. You will then begin to see the drive performance you paid for.

s1ngs1ng · Post by **s1ngs1ng** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 1:52 am

its working now
i took off the secondary master and it works

i don't know why ? can anyone tell me?
the sec master is 40GB maybe coz differences in size and cache size?

another one is once i put this WD 80GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache
the first HDD in Primary Master become UDMA2 only, know why?

Cheers

hyperspace · Post by **hyperspace** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 8:49 am

hyperspace · Post by **hyperspace** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 8:50 am

With all the issues we have seen with the HPT366 controller, follow RRLedford's recommendation and get a modern PCI ATA100 or ATA133 controller.

InactiveX · Post by **InactiveX** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 1:14 pm

s1ngs1ng wrote:its working now
i took off the secondary master and it works

i don't know why ? can anyone tell me?
the sec master is 40GB maybe coz differences in size and cache size?

another one is once i put this WD 80GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache
the first HDD in Primary Master become UDMA2 only, know why?

Cheers

The simple answer is that the HPT3666 is ridden with bugs. I agree with the others about Promise cards. I have one here.

s1ngs1ng · Post by **s1ngs1ng** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 8:12 pm

i had Promise card before but ihad one problem
I need to put my WinXP CD to the CDROM therefore it will recognise the HDD boot otherwise it will says no bootable OS

why?

RRLedford · Post by **RRLedford** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 2:01 am

Run the CDROM drive off the ATA33 controller & it should boot.
If not, use a Win98 disk to boot with CDROM support & then change to that drive to launch the OS install.

s1ngs1ng · Post by **s1ngs1ng** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 2:36 am

well i prefer ignore the trouble

cheers

InactiveX · Post by **InactiveX** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 1:10 pm

Did you mean the OS wouldn't start or the installation wouldn't start? If it's the latter, I've never seen that before.

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 1:53 pm

ok here's a trick i learned

use a win98 boot disk.. boot with cdrom support

goto the cdrom:\i386\ folder on your winxp cd and run winnt.exe

and you should be good to go from there

it worked with both 2K and xp for me

RRLedford · Post by **RRLedford** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 3:47 pm

kuun, thanks for completing my thought as far as what to do after the Win98 floppy boot gets the CD-drive running as a drive letter.

kuun · Post by **kuun** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 3:51 pm

rrledford is that a good thing or bad?

s1ngs1ng · Post by **s1ngs1ng** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 9:44 pm

what i mean after install WinXP OS each time to boot up i need to put WinXP CDROM to the CDROM so that it will recognise there is an OS

24seven · Post by **24seven** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 4:51 am

s1ngs1ng wrote:what i mean after install WinXP OS each time to boot up i need to put WinXP CDROM to the CDROM so that it will recognise there is an OS

When installing do you press F6 at the beginning to install the drivers for the controler? Im guessing you do if it gets to the point where you reboot.

You could try putting the disk on the normal ata33 controler and installing on there, then once its installed, boot into windows and setup the hpt366. Once its installed and is working properly swap the drive over to that hpt366 controler.

RRLedford · Post by **RRLedford** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 11:47 am

s1ngs1ng
If you boot from floppy, load device driver(s) with F6, establish drive letter access to the CDROM, go to the directory that kuun indicated, and run WINNT.EXE, as he indicated -- all the files needed for installing O/S get copied to your hdisk in an I386 folder. After a reboot, the process continues running from the Hdisk. Any driver not already included with the Win2K/WinXP CDROM will only need to be added once using the F6 option. Once these steps are done, the O/S CDROM and device driver disk are no longer needed to boot. Those files are now fully integrated with the O/S build on the Hdisk.

InactiveX · Post by **InactiveX** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 3:35 pm

s1ngs1ng: To start the OS from the Promise card you need to go into Setup and set the 1st boot device as EXT, and set EXT as SCSI.

Did you do this?