ATA100 Drivers and win98SE

RoadStar · 08-31-2001, 12:40 PM

Hey, How you'all doing?
All my goodies came in yesterday, A CUSL2-C BP, Mushkin 256MB rev2 cas 2 Ram and a TBSC Sound Card.

Now to my question, Read all the threads I can find on intel's 100ATA drivers, since my os is 98se, do I need to load the intel 100 drivers? I know I got to load the INI files.
From what I read about it, I hope I don't have to.
Thanks

Solomon_abx · 08-31-2001, 12:52 PM

Hey, nice equipment.
I assume you have an ATA100 harddrive.
There is a lot of controversy in this area, but I would install the drivers since you have Win98.

samlwl · 08-31-2001, 01:59 PM

Yeah, agree, if you have an ata100 hdisk and win98se u should install the the intel ATA100 driver cause win98se doesn't support ata100.
Which means your hdisk will only run at ata66 in win98se without the drivers even though u have an ata100 hdisk.

cookoolou · 08-31-2001, 03:09 PM

the new drivers are less troublesome i've been using the 610_011
without any trouble! give em a try easy enough too uninstall them! Nice lookin board

RoadStar · 08-31-2001, 07:53 PM

Thanks for your replies.
Right now I have a Maxtor 7200rpm 30Gig ATA66 hard drive. Later in the Month I'm getting a 40 gig H/D ata100.
If I install the Drivers, will it be backward compatible to a ATA66 H/D?

Solomon_abx · 08-31-2001, 07:58 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by XV1100SH
Thanks for your replies.
Right now I have a Maxtor 7200rpm 30Gig ATA66 hard drive. Later in the Month I'm getting a 40 gig H/D ata100.
If I install the Drivers, will it be backward compatible to a ATA66 H/D?

Yes.

RoadStar · 08-31-2001, 08:20 PM

Thanks for all your help, now it is time to retire my ole P3V4X (I'll save it for a back up).

RoadStar · 09-03-2001, 01:03 PM

Sorry for the double post, But just got finnished installing my new CUSL2-C BP MoBo. Everything is working ok, but I had to install the OS 3 times. Seems I had trouble with the ATA100 drivers on the CD. It loaded ok, but I could not install my modem or Dxr3 card after I installed The ATA100 drivers. One more thing, I lost the ability to check the DMA Box in the DVD, CD-RW and hard drive.
On my 3rd try,I loaded the INI drivers, then the rest of my hardware, everything went smooth and got the DMA box back.
The board is rev.1.04 and the BIOS is 1006a.
As of now, I did not install the ATA100 drivers, Will not installing the ATA100 affect my system later?

**k0NG0** · 09-03-2001, 01:26 PM

Win98 only supports ATA/66 natively, so when you go without the Intel ATA-drivers, you don't get the ATA/100-speeds your HD can use. This may or may not affect the performance. If you use very HD-intensive software, like HD-recorders for music or such, you'll probably see some penalty in speed, but tests have shown that ATA/100-speeds do not give a huge performance-boost. Most CD-recorders and DVD/CD-readers can not operate above ATA/66 (UDMA/66), so they won't be affected at all.

If you install the drivers at a later time, you run the risk of having a bad system yet again.

-kONGO

RoadStar · 09-04-2001, 06:46 AM

Thanks for your reply, kongo. I think I'll not install intel's ATA100 as my system is running pretty good.
I had a wierd problem with the USB ports, but I got that to work too. Everything was working smooth untill I plugged my USB cable in, then my mouse would jerk all over the place and my computer would open, run, close programs real slow, so I hunted in the forums for USB, read all I can, finally went into the BIOS and unassigned IRQs, turned auto back on, and the problem went away. This board is real strong once you figure it out. It was no different than the P3V4X, only different querks.

hnsn82 · 09-06-2001, 12:49 PM

ok , currently i have one dvd drive and one liteon burner. liteon is the secondary master and dvd is in secondary slave.
i'm using asus cusl2 mobo with i815E chipset and win98. i don't install the intel ata driver , but i do have the chipset utilities installed.
my question is, last time before i install the cd-rw the dvd was operating at dma mode ( when i go to control panel->system->device manager->properties ) the dma checkbox was checked. but for some reason now , after i installed the cd-rw the check dissappeared!!!

and the funny thing is every time i tried to check the dma for the dvd rom , after i restart i found out that the dma of the cd-rw was checked and the dvd's is leaved blank. I tried to do that several times and I always endup in the same result.

so any suggestion here ??? anyone know what's wrong..

thanks in advance...

08-31-2001, 12:40 PM	#1
RoadStar Road Rambler Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Bar & Grill At The End Of The Universe Posts: 2,124	ATA100 Drivers and win98SE Hey, How you'all doing? All my goodies came in yesterday, A CUSL2-C BP, Mushkin 256MB rev2 cas 2 Ram and a TBSC Sound Card. Now to my question, Read all the threads I can find on intel's 100ATA drivers, since my os is 98se, do I need to load the intel 100 drivers? I know I got to load the INI files. From what I read about it, I hope I don't have to. Thanks
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08-31-2001, 12:52 PM	#2
Solomon_abx Registered User Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: USA Posts: 1,634	Hey, nice equipment. I assume you have an ATA100 harddrive. There is a lot of controversy in this area, but I would install the drivers since you have Win98.
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08-31-2001, 01:59 PM	#3
samlwl Folding@Home Team ABXZone Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: the Fold! Posts: 2,122	Yeah, agree, if you have an ata100 hdisk and win98se u should install the the intel ATA100 driver cause win98se doesn't support ata100. Which means your hdisk will only run at ata66 in win98se without the drivers even though u have an ata100 hdisk.
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08-31-2001, 03:09 PM	#4
cookoolou Registered User Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Lynn,Ma. Posts: 212	the new drivers are less troublesome i've been using the 610_011 without any trouble! give em a try easy enough too uninstall them! Nice lookin board Last edited by cookoolou; 08-31-2001 at 03:30 PM..
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08-31-2001, 07:53 PM	#5
RoadStar Road Rambler Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Bar & Grill At The End Of The Universe Posts: 2,124	Thanks for your replies. Right now I have a Maxtor 7200rpm 30Gig ATA66 hard drive. Later in the Month I'm getting a 40 gig H/D ata100. If I install the Drivers, will it be backward compatible to a ATA66 H/D?
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08-31-2001, 08:20 PM	#7
RoadStar Road Rambler Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Bar & Grill At The End Of The Universe Posts: 2,124	Thanks for all your help, now it is time to retire my ole P3V4X (I'll save it for a back up).
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09-03-2001, 01:03 PM	#8
RoadStar Road Rambler Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Bar & Grill At The End Of The Universe Posts: 2,124	Sorry for the double post, But just got finnished installing my new CUSL2-C BP MoBo. Everything is working ok, but I had to install the OS 3 times. Seems I had trouble with the ATA100 drivers on the CD. It loaded ok, but I could not install my modem or Dxr3 card after I installed The ATA100 drivers. One more thing, I lost the ability to check the DMA Box in the DVD, CD-RW and hard drive. On my 3rd try,I loaded the INI drivers, then the rest of my hardware, everything went smooth and got the DMA box back. The board is rev.1.04 and the BIOS is 1006a. As of now, I did not install the ATA100 drivers, Will not installing the ATA100 affect my system later?
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09-03-2001, 01:26 PM	#9
k0NG0 Remembering TQ Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Sweden Posts: 13,750	Win98 only supports ATA/66 natively, so when you go without the Intel ATA-drivers, you don't get the ATA/100-speeds your HD can use. This may or may not affect the performance. If you use very HD-intensive software, like HD-recorders for music or such, you'll probably see some penalty in speed, but tests have shown that ATA/100-speeds do not give a huge performance-boost. Most CD-recorders and DVD/CD-readers can not operate above ATA/66 (UDMA/66), so they won't be affected at all. If you install the drivers at a later time, you run the risk of having a bad system yet again. -kONGO
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09-04-2001, 06:46 AM	#10
RoadStar Road Rambler Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Bar & Grill At The End Of The Universe Posts: 2,124	Thanks for your reply, kongo. I think I'll not install intel's ATA100 as my system is running pretty good. I had a wierd problem with the USB ports, but I got that to work too. Everything was working smooth untill I plugged my USB cable in, then my mouse would jerk all over the place and my computer would open, run, close programs real slow, so I hunted in the forums for USB, read all I can, finally went into the BIOS and unassigned IRQs, turned auto back on, and the problem went away. This board is real strong once you figure it out. It was no different than the P3V4X, only different querks.
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09-06-2001, 12:49 PM	#11
hnsn82 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Fresno Posts: 168	ok , currently i have one dvd drive and one liteon burner. liteon is the secondary master and dvd is in secondary slave. i'm using asus cusl2 mobo with i815E chipset and win98. i don't install the intel ata driver , but i do have the chipset utilities installed. my question is, last time before i install the cd-rw the dvd was operating at dma mode ( when i go to control panel->system->device manager->properties ) the dma checkbox was checked. but for some reason now , after i installed the cd-rw the check dissappeared!!! and the funny thing is every time i tried to check the dma for the dvd rom , after i restart i found out that the dma of the cd-rw was checked and the dvd's is leaved blank. I tried to do that several times and I always endup in the same result. so any suggestion here ??? anyone know what's wrong.. thanks in advance...
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