Demetri,

  Don't know about the difference in resources.
  I use both the motherboard controllers and the added controllers in my
systems.  As long as your OS has adjusted for the additional resource demand
without conflicts, it's just like adding any other device.
  The add-in ATA66+ IDE cards show up as a SCSI based device, so if you want
to boot from the hard drive attached to the add-in card, you must tell the
BIOS to boot from a SCSI device first.

Fred Nielson

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 12:09 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] siig controller

I just installed SIIG ATA controller CN2474; it makes a nice difference.
Free resources on boot is about five percent higher. Is that expected?

Motherboard hard disk controllers remain listed in Device Mgr, Win98?
Delete? I presume cannot use motherboard and PCI controller. Right?

Hard drive manufacturer technician said change boot sequence to SCSI, A,
C. Reason? Drive is IDE.

Demetri Kolokotronis

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