From: William Patton
Date: March 28, 2001
Subject:[PCBUILD] Installation of Promise ATA 100 Controller

Thank you, I was afraid that this EZdrive software would make this
difficult.  I guess I will have to back up my data and fdisk anf format with
the HD on the Promise card. Thank you, William Patton


>On the Promise WEB site, (and the other manufacturers say the same thing),
>in several places they say that when a drive is "already" setup and running
>(with or with-out EZDrive) and it is moved to the ULTRA100 controller, the
>geometry and/or translation of the drive MAY not be "just right" and the
drive
>"may not" read properly unless it is Fdisked and formatted _while_connected
>_to_ the ULTRA100 controller.
>This, (of course), will destroy all the data on the drive.
>A good back-up, (not an image), or being lucky is called for.

>Many times, users move a drive from one type of controller to another
with-out
>running into these "incompatibilities", but it would be wise not to "count
on"
>having no trouble.
>                     Good luck,  Rick Glazier
>For safeties sake, keep all questions on the list.


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