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hello,

i had a similar problem with a promise controler and 120 GB ATA drives

the ru bios without HTP366 code solves the boot problem

try this bios revision BP6 RU Without HPT

hello, and thank you for your help i didn't made any more tests since monday when i was testing the stability of the 400@570 overclocking, i had run for 3 days a cpu test burner but i can't remember its name at this time , the 400@600 Mhz overclocking was running quite well but the cpu burn test cra...

hello, this is the 3rd test Drive Fitness Tests 120 GB HD's connected on the Promise FastTrack66 controller basic tests => the pc "freeze" at "media analyse" on each disk advanced tests => idem -=-=-=-=-=-=-=- well, there is a problem when the Promise FastTrack66 controller is connected on the Abit ...

2nd test Drive Fitness Tests 120 GB HD's connected on the internal udma33 controller ide 0 and ide 1 basic tests => ok for disk 1 and disk 2 advanced tests => ok for disk 1 and disk 2 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- after these tests, it's possible to say that the HD's are not in trouble let's continue to ...

1st test :

OS WinXPSP1
copy 20 GB
from
the Promise Controller
[4*20 GB HD in raid 0+1]
to
the internal controller ide 0 and ide 1
[2*120 GB HD in logical raid 0]

result
transfer successfull
CPU's @ 30 %
average transfer rate @ 14 MB/s

hello Wolfram, The 120GB drives are set up as a raid 0 the operating system i 've made the tests with is w2k3 for the 120 GB HD and winXPSP1 for the 4*20 GB HD the installed driver for the Promise controller is the same for the 2 OS it is not certified and the latest available i'll run the "Drive Fi...

hello, well, everything is not as i expected no more "Verifying DMI Pool Data . . . . . . . " error and format is possible but it remains an annoying problem at the time i make file transfers on the Promise controller -/- when i copy a small number of small files, the copy occurs well -/- when the s...

hello, i flashed with the bios revision BP6 RU Without HPT and now the format is in progress it seems that the Promise FT 66 & 120 GB HD startup problem is fixed it was a very good solution, thank you very much i also tried to flash with the bios revision BP6 RV Without HPT but it gave an "BIOS Imag...

thank you for your answer

i'm not using the HPT controller
so i'll try the ru bios without the HPT366 code tomorrow morning

i didn't thought it could help, but it's something simple to try

more comments after the test

hello, i've got a BP6 , ru bios, 2 celeron 400@570 Mhz and a Promise FT 66 controller with four 20 GB Hd's attached running on raid 0+1 everything runs fine since a couple of years -=-=-=-=-=-=- i'm trying now to upgrade the hard drives for a largest capacity with two 120 GB -/- when they are connec...