ATA66 not working with 1.4Cel/S370/LinLin and RV

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nicklogan
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ATA66 not working with 1.4Cel/S370/LinLin and RV

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After having bios problems I ended up stripping my 1.4 Cel/s370/linlin setup down and building it back up including drivers, etc. While I was at it, I installed the RV bios. It seems to work well with this setup. At bios settings of 100 (1/3) and 2/3 the processor is id'ed as running at 1400mhz instead of 1394 and is stable. Nice boot-up logo, too! However, I can't seem to get the ata66 running again or get into the hpt setup menu. I switched the 80 pin cable to another machine and it works ok. Can anyone help with this?
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Did you install the RV BIOS without HPT or with HPT?
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No, I used bp6rv128.bin. But to tell the truth, since this computer was idle for a while, I can't remember if I ever had ata66 going with the 1.4 celeron.
Has anyone that's done this change gotten ata66 going?
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Does Windows recognize the hardware?
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It runs fine under Windows and Linux with all the hardware recognized using the ata 33 settings. When I change the bios settings and the cable to ata66, it refuses to recognize the hard drive (asks for a boot disk). All of the caps on the board look fine.
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When you changed the BIOS settings, did you also change the "Boot Order" setting to include "EXT"?
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I finally got a chance to double-check and yes, I set the boot sequence to "A,C,Ext" and the other option to UDMA66, not SCSI. I still get a message asking for a boot disk. Seems odd because on the other BP6 system I have with 2 533 Celerons, I'm pretty sure it's set to EXT and SCSI and it runs ok. ???
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Post by Derek »

I would just slap my hard drives on the ATA33 then. You're more than likely to get better performance through that route anyway.
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