If you can't see the additional HD's in windows, but see the other drives, that's not a driver issue. That's more of an incorrect jumper issue, or electro/mechanical failure. If you're able to see hard drives on the controllers as single units, but not additional drives on the controllers, it's not a driver. Is this what you're saying? Are all devices being seen at POST and in the BIOS? If not, drivers have nothing to do with it. Let us know.
Are you saying that you DID try the drivers here, and they don't work? http://fae.abit.com.tw/eng/download/driver/i_adapter.htm#HR66 (that link that Ben sent re-directs to that page). Do you have yellow marks in the device manager for each HPT controller? -Clint God Bless Us All Clint Hamilton, Owner Want to exchange links with us? http://OrpheusComputing.com © ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> One problem. If I attach other hard drives to IDE 3 and 4 they are not seen. That is why I need the drivers..rich ----- Original Message ----- From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I didn't think this was a RAID board, and checking the specs > again, it's not. It evidently is like the Soyo SY-6BA+IV that > has 4 IDE ports. Highpoint Technologies makes ATA and RAID > controllers, and in this case it again is like the Soyo using > the HPT366 chip for the 2nd set of IDE controllers. But in > either case, the OS will boot from either ATA (Intel or HPT) > or RAID with no drivers (no way to install the drivers anyway > until the OS is loaded!) and will work OK in the OS with no > drivers. You'll just have a yellow ! or ? in the device > manager for the HPT controllers. Always check the > manufacturer's website for drivers. > http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/bp6/ I wouldn't update > the BIOS on the HPT controller unless you have problems. You > may find this site of additional help/info in the future. > http://bp6.com/ > > I don't know if you've ever used this board before and > formatted a HD on it, but you can't hook the HD up to the HPT > ports and format it that way because the format utility will > not see the HD. Using the format utility built into win2k pro > can give you the same problems because when I tried it, the > same thing happened; it could not see the HD. If you want to > place the HD on the HPT port, it's much quicker to hook the HD > up to the PRI ATA port, format it, then hook it up to the HPT > port and then install the OS. Don't use the win2k floppy to > boot from, use the CDROM and set the BIOS to temporarily boot > from the CDROM. It's MUCH faster since the setup has to go > through all sorts of drivers to start the setup, and of course > a CDROM drive is much faster than loading it off the floppy > boot disk. > -Clint > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I do not know if anyone can help but here it is. I have the > above mentioned > mother board in for reload of windows 2000 pro. This Board > comes with 4 IDE > Ports for a total of 8 IDE devices. As far as I can tell it is > not raid. Any > way I need the drivers for the second 4 IDE ports and I can > not find them > anywhere. Does anyone have a suggestion..rich ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
