Slow Detection of Maxtor ATA100 Drive

Beemer · January 18th, 2003, 07:51 PM

Win98 SE (plus)/Y2K Pro/XP Pro
A7V KT133
Ultra 100 BIOS v 2.01.0 build 43
Promise Ultra v160b33
T-Bird 1.1
768MB Crucial RAM
Maxtor, Diamond Max Plus 45, 7,200rpm/30GB's ULTRA ATA100 Drive

The drive is connected to the Primary ATA100 controller all by itself.
When detecting the ATA100 drive it hangs for about 12 seconds at this screen:

then it finally gets to this screen after a long delay. (12sec.)

Is there anyway to set the bios for faster detection?

I'm using the latest BIOS update. Version a7v1011.
I reinstalled all 3 O/S's a while back and upgraded all software downloads previous to formatting the O/S's partitions. The installs went smoothly. The only thing that caught my eye was the slow detection of the ATA100 drive. Any ideas?

Cheers!

Scott Tiger · January 18th, 2003, 08:16 PM

My Promise card took a long time to detect my Maxtor drives too. Don't remember it taking 12 seconds though. I never could find a way to speed detection. Thankfully, I don't reboot that often ('bout once a month).

Hope you find a work-around!

Beemer · January 19th, 2003, 04:26 AM

Thanks Scott. Mee too!

Cheers!

NeoStarO1 · January 23rd, 2003, 08:38 PM

I found one article but I am not sure if this article is related at all. So won't post it as of yet cuz I got a question.

Does this do this in bois when you are trying to setup the drive? or just at boot up everytime?

Beemer · January 23rd, 2003, 08:39 PM

At bootup.

Cheers!

Beemer · January 23rd, 2003, 08:42 PM

v1008 worked fine way back when. I might have to go back to an earlier version of BIOS upgrade. I'd sure like to find out if this can be fixed in some other way though.

Cheers!

NeoStarO1 · January 23rd, 2003, 08:43 PM

hmm okay,
well im a hunting around for now. here is the one article that i found. not sure if what might help or is your problem.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;q260233

Edit: if you are thinking bois issue. would the setting for ACPI make a difference from being enabled or disabled?

Just trying to grab some ideas cuz i don't know.

Beemer · January 23rd, 2003, 09:49 PM

Guaranteed a bios issue. I have ATA controllers on the A7V. Primary and Secondary. Devices on a ATA controller are detected through a different process. I don't get any IDE drives detected which is normal.

Anyone know what the:
D0
D1
D2
D3
references are?

It's something I've never dealt with yet.

Cheers!

Beemer · January 23rd, 2003, 09:52 PM

Oh. And this machine works well with ACPI as long as I purposely install it with F5 when installing the O/S.

Cheers!

Beemer · January 23rd, 2003, 09:58 PM

I believe that using F6 at the beginning of a WinY2K and showing the installation where it can find drivers for any mass storage devices, if necessary, e.g. Promise Ultra drivers in my case, solves the issue they relate to in the article.

Good try though.

Cheers!