Disable HPT completely ?

Atropos · Post by **Atropos** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 7:25 am

Hi there,

again a lazy user. Should have checked the whole board before asking,
but a quick search did not show any results ...

Is there (or will be in near future) a bios option to turn off HPT completely?
I ask this because it seems there are people around here knowing how
to modify original Bios files - right?

My other box has an Abit BE6II mobo. Intel 440BX chipset (running rock
stable at 133MHz FSB, btw.) and HPT366 chip on board.
Seems to be very similar to BP6 dispite the SLOT1 and only single CPU.

The original BE6II Bios allows to disable HPT366 _completely_.

Any idea if one could take the "disable" code out of the BE6 bios and into
the BP6 bios ????
Sorry if I ask for making it snow in hell

Atropos

BCN · Post by **BCN** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 8:45 am

there is BP6 bios on the site without HPT bios, but windows would detect it anyway, so you need to disable it in windows.... that is disturbing, so that's what you may do....

InactiveX · Post by **InactiveX** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:33 pm

You can find two BIOSs without the HPT here.

I have used them both, and currently have the RV version flashed.

Windows will still give the HPT a set of IRQs, but that is the only trace of the controller left.

Atropos · Post by **Atropos** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 11:51 am

thanx for the replies ...

I am aware of the RV bios. But that was not the original idea.
As far as I understood the RV w/o HPT removes the boot screen of HPT.
But the controler itself stays kind of "online". Thus meaning it still
uses an IRQ and stays accessible from OS.

When the HPT is set to be disabled on my BE6II mobo there's nothing
left of it. No IRQ in use and invisible for OS. (It's like you remove
a PCI card - it's gone, nada.)

Atropos

InactiveX · Post by **InactiveX** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 1:40 pm

Although it still uses an IRQ, I believe you would not be able to use the controller with the HPT-less BIOS.

Sadly it is not possible to completely remove the HPT as you describe. I wish it was!

phaedrus · Post by **phaedrus** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 12:22 am

InactiveX wrote:Although it still uses an IRQ, I believe you would not be able to use the controller with the HPT-less BIOS.

Sadly it is not possible to completely remove the HPT as you describe. I wish it was!

I had my zip drive hanging off the HPT. Linux would happily still use the HPT, even with the RV BIOS.

So, with the right OS, you can. Not sure about Windows.

Jeff

InactiveX · Post by **InactiveX** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 12:45 pm

Interesting!

purrkur · Post by **purrkur** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 6:30 am

phaedrus wrote:So, with the right OS, you can. Not sure about Windows.

I second that. The short tests I did with an IBM drive connected to the HPT366 gave me decent performance and no worries whatsoever. I even used hdparm to tweak and tune the drive but everything worked like it should.

However, Linux has had some problems with the 366 which is evident if you look for Linux and HPT366. However, I doubt it is as much as with Windows.