-=> JIM HOLSONBACK wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 ->  TW> IF you find the place to disable the On Board IDE controller it is
 ->  TW> just that simple.

 -> It's right there in the CMOS.

 JH> Hmm.  Right _where_ in CMOS, Wayne?  (see below)

 TW>  I have an Award BIOS and it is under "Intergerated Peripherals"
 TW> Yuo will have to look arround as it could be in a different place orr
 TW> an earlier or Later BIOS  or in an AMD BIOS

 WC> Mine's under IDE primary 0
 WC> and IDE primary 1.
 WC> Highlight these and hit enter and you've the options of
 WC> Auto, removable, ATAPI, USER and none.
 WC> To add an I/O Ultra-133 card I'll just set both to none, save and
 JH>      exit.

 JH> In my experience here, entering "NONE" on the SETUP first
screen does
 JH> not disable the IDE channel. Here,  I have "NONE" entered
In SETUP for
 JH> both drives on the secondary IDE channel, and that clearly does not
 JH> disable the channel, since the CD/ROM drive I have as secondary channel
 JH> 'master' drive works just right.

This is the secondary screen reached by highlighting the relavent primary
IDE channels where the selections, auto, user, CD or none presents
themselves as options on the secondary screen.

All this may be irrelavent anyway as the Siig I/O card may well
operate like another I/O card I bought years back to overcome
the 8.4 Gig barrier. That card simply occupied a slot, drives
less than 8.4 Gig used the two motherboard I/O primaries and drives
larger than 8.4 used the aftermarket cards IDE connections giving four
potential primaries.

The Siig PDF manual is very non-technical as well as I've already
read it. Net searches however reveal satisfied users happy
both with the ATA133 speed increase and large drive capacity.

 JH> Sorry, I can't tell you if there is a better SETUP screen where you
 JH> should look in order to disable one or both of your mainboard's onboard
 JH> IDE channels.

I've been through them all multiple times.

 JH> Back when we were talking about compatible memory sticks,
 JH> I went to the HP website, and I finally gave up on finding a copy of
 JH> your mainboard's manual, because I found HP website to be a cumbersome
 JH> PITA.

Oh I found the manual there but it's just a copy of the one I have here
with nothing technically useful.
I passed along the relavent information about the memory
revision standard... and boy searchng THAT out on the net it is
a long winded and highly technical document :-(

Anyway all is looking good here.
This morning walking the dog I discovered a 19" inch monitor
discarded in the trash, guess the owner got a flat screen.
Anyway drug it the third block home and lo it lit up with
a perfect picture and onscreen setup options I'd never seen before.

That memory you sent will really come into it's own soon as after
I snag a Maxtor 20 Gig I'm going dual Windows - Linux.

After that I'll look to setting up those network cards you sent along.
And after that I'll look to buying the Siig Ultra-ATA133 card to extract
the maximum performance out of the 20 Gig Maxtor as well as any other
drive I see fit to add.

Thanks again for the care package and memory.
i've not yet moved the 486 to where I can work on it
so there it sits.
I did check out that second hard drive on it, the W.D., lot's
of bad clusters but I'll format it Linux with testing
and set that drive entirely Linux to play around with.
The Seagate drive was used to clone the Win 3.1 drive and is stored
away in anti-static just in case.

The very best to you and yours,
sincerely Wayne Chirnside 

 
 
 
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