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Randyman... · 10-28-2005, 10:46 PM

Hello,

I have a P4C800-E Deluxe, and I have noticed that the on-board 378 Promise Controller will ALWAYS look for PATA drives - and if you DON'T have a PATA HD connected, it delays the detection of the SATA HD's by almost 10 full seconds!

Is there any way to alleviate this PATA detection delay? I have 2x Maxtor 300Gig 16MB SATA drives on my Promise in RAID-0, and I also have 3 OS installs for various reasons (OS's are on 2x Raptor on ICH5R RAID-0), and this delay makes booting different OS's painfully slow to me...

Or, is there a way to revert back to the Boot Menu (boot.ini) w/o doing a full reboot? The MoBo and RAID Arrays are not changing from one OS boot to another, so it seems pointless to have to re-POST and re-detect these arrays just to boot a different partition (all 3 OS's are XP-Pro, one install on each partition if that helps)...

I'm runing the latest Asus BIOS (1024.001), and this happens if the Promise is in RAID or IDE modes. The second you add a PATA HD to the Promise, it detects the HD's immediately (no delay) - but I don't have any PATA's I want to put on the Promise (Actually I do, but they are used for removeable storage as B/U's).

Any help? Thanks!

10-28-2005, 10:46 PM	#1 (permalink)
Randyman... Registered User Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 71 OS: XP Pro	P4C800-E Dlx - Promise SATA HD Detection Delays??? Hello, I have a P4C800-E Deluxe, and I have noticed that the on-board 378 Promise Controller will ALWAYS look for PATA drives - and if you DON'T have a PATA HD connected, it delays the detection of the SATA HD's by almost 10 full seconds! Is there any way to alleviate this PATA detection delay? I have 2x Maxtor 300Gig 16MB SATA drives on my Promise in RAID-0, and I also have 3 OS installs for various reasons (OS's are on 2x Raptor on ICH5R RAID-0), and this delay makes booting different OS's painfully slow to me... Or, is there a way to revert back to the Boot Menu (boot.ini) w/o doing a full reboot? The MoBo and RAID Arrays are not changing from one OS boot to another, so it seems pointless to have to re-POST and re-detect these arrays just to boot a different partition (all 3 OS's are XP-Pro, one install on each partition if that helps)... I'm runing the latest Asus BIOS (1024.001), and this happens if the Promise is in RAID or IDE modes. The second you add a PATA HD to the Promise, it detects the HD's immediately (no delay) - but I don't have any PATA's I want to put on the Promise (Actually I do, but they are used for removeable storage as B/U's). Any help? Thanks! __________________ Asus P4C800-E Dlx (1024) / P4 3.2E @ 4.01GHz / 2Gig Corsair DDR550 (@502MHz) @ 2.5-3-3-6/2t Dual Channel / XP-120 HSF HD's: 2x WD Raptor 36Gig in RAID-0 on ICH5R (OS) / 2x Maxtor 300Gig 16MB HD's on PROMISE (DATA) 2x Plextor 740A 16X D-L DVD-RW / ATI 9800Pro 128MB / Dell 2000FP 20.1" LCD / OCZ Powerstream 520 / RME Multiface 38 Ch Audio Last edited by Randyman...; 10-28-2005 at 10:50 PM.