Originally posted by Vertigo1
Just so you know: If your drive is hooked upto an ATA100/ATA133 controller on a PCI card, or on a controller like on the Asus A7V (4 IDE ports instead of the normal 2), then I highly recommend that you hook the drive up to an ATA66/33 controller on the board instead. If your motherboard only has two IDE interfaces, then you won't have to worry about this. Basically, the reason I say this is that sometimes Win2k or XP setup can go nutty (ie: refuse to detect critical dll files when it detects your devices, or flat out refused to recognize your hard drive). Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. This is just a problem I noticed when installing both 2k and XP on my A7V, because of the way the ATA100 controller is wired up. The Linux-Mandrake installer has this same problem. Like I said, if your board only has two then don't worry about moving cables.
I'll have to keep that in mind when I finally get around to installing XP on my 8RDA+. I had to install a secondary ATA133 controller to overcome a couple of problems with my ATA device configuration (my LS120 drive is a PIO device and my CD burner is very territorial and won't work properly unless it's on its own channel) and my hard drive will end up being connected to it.
