Wizbones

Well in my case it was really embarrasing since I am an engineer and have built all my computer systems for many years. My databases and need for hard drives don't really require the ATA/66/100/133, but I was curious since I had the boards with the HPT370 I figured I would try it out since most all new hard drives are usually at least the ATA66 anymore.  I am not really a computer engineer, but a electronics engineer. You wouldn't think I could make such a mistake but I felt others certainly could learn from it if they made the same mistake I did.

I think if it wouldn't have recognized the drives correctly and configured them in the bios on bootup as UDMA 4 and UDMA 5 drives I probably would have found the problem right away. I didn't really get into looking at the 80 pin designation to see if there really was a difference in the throughput connection.

Forums are important, very important. You learn something new everyday. You also can pick out those who really don't know what they are talking about fairly easily. I haven't time to really browse the forum well but will get to it in the next week or so. So far it looks very nicely laid out.

Dennis