Stephen, I just did essentially that with an ASUS P5A-B motherboard, AMD K6
2 450 and 160 MB RAM. However I used the Promise ULTRA DMA/66 PCI Adapter
card. The manual that came with my card did not say that you have to set the
jumper on the HD connected to the Promise card to Cable Select. Do that,
and then connect the new HD using the 80 wire cable that, I presume, came
with the card. Also, go into your BIOS and change the HDD Sequence to SCSI
as Jun has already said in his post. In my case, before I did that, I kept
getting and "Invalid System Disk" message. BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING, I suggest
that you go to www.promise.com and look at the guides and FAQ there. They
are very good and seem to address any problem that you might encounter.

In my case, I first installed the card and my main HD with Win 98 SE already
installed. When prompted I used the floppy that came with the drive to
install the Mass Storage Driver. I do not know whether Win ME behaves
differently.

Good luck,

Peter Darrach



-----Original Message-----
From: Steven L Gillespie
Sent: January 15, 2001 4:57 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] New HD and PCI Adapter Card


I am installing a new Maxtor 40GB HD and Promise ATA/100 PCI Adapter card in
my ASUS P5A MB with an AMD k6 II 550 and 128mb of SDRAM.  Two questions:

This motherboard only supports ATA33 with the onboard controller.  I would
like to leave the old 2GB HD installed on the MB controller (for back up)
and move the OS (Windoews ME) to the new faster HD.  I also have an internal
Zip 100 and DVD drive on this controller.

Is it possible to install the card and HD and designate the new hard drive
as the C (boot) drive while still maintaining the current configuration?
How is this done?

Steven

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