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I've just set up an Athlon 1GHz machine, DFI AK74EC motherboard, inno3D GeForce2 MX video, Sound Blaster Live! Platinum, one Samsung 40GB ATA100 HD and one Seagate 30GB 7200RPM HD, a Creative 121032 CDRW and a Creative 12X DVD with Dxr3.
Looks like W2K does not recognize the ATA100 on the Samsung drive (reports PIO 4 with the standard W2K IDE drivers). I mounted the VIA drivers which come on the mobo CD and then the disks are reported as SCSI devices. They seem to work better but then the CDRW software refuses to work reporting a SCSI error. I downloaded the latest VIA drivers versions (4 in one 4.26 beta) from www.viahardware.com and the devices are still reported as SCSI. Even if I disable DMA on the CDs, Nero CD burner still refuses to work. As to Adaptec Easy CD Creator, it doesn't even sees the CDRW!
There is an article in the MS knowledge base (Q251376) that states that the IDE driver model in Win 98/NT is an extension of the SCSI drivers, but in W2K there is a completely different scheme and that MS does not recommend to do an IDE driver for W2K as an extension of an SCSI driver. Maybe VIA didn't heed this advise?
Do any of you know how to make my ATA100 disk work under W2K?
Thanks in advance.
Looks like W2K does not recognize the ATA100 on the Samsung drive (reports PIO 4 with the standard W2K IDE drivers). I mounted the VIA drivers which come on the mobo CD and then the disks are reported as SCSI devices. They seem to work better but then the CDRW software refuses to work reporting a SCSI error. I downloaded the latest VIA drivers versions (4 in one 4.26 beta) from www.viahardware.com and the devices are still reported as SCSI. Even if I disable DMA on the CDs, Nero CD burner still refuses to work. As to Adaptec Easy CD Creator, it doesn't even sees the CDRW!
There is an article in the MS knowledge base (Q251376) that states that the IDE driver model in Win 98/NT is an extension of the SCSI drivers, but in W2K there is a completely different scheme and that MS does not recommend to do an IDE driver for W2K as an extension of an SCSI driver. Maybe VIA didn't heed this advise?
Do any of you know how to make my ATA100 disk work under W2K?
Thanks in advance.