Two Hard drives

[BruceMyers48]

I could sure use some help with this and thank you!
I have a Asus A7V mobo. It has 4 IDE controllers, one ata100 primary, ata100 secondary, and the other two support ata66/33. I would like to put another HD in and boot to it seperate with another OS loaded on it.I already have a ultra 100 7200 rpm on the the controller that supports ata100. This is a ata100 5400 rpm. Where and how would I complish this task. Also If I hooked a ata100 HD to a Controller that supports ony ata66/33 would the HD be backwards compatable to 66 from 100> Thanks Confused in stormy Florida. Bruce

 

[Lars_Coleman]

The first question would be what Operating Systems you are going to have installed? Just because you may need a third party boot manager or the Operating system will have one already ... just depends!

As for how you would want them set up, I would put the second hard drive on the second ATA100 controller. So you would have your original on the primary ATA100 and the new one on the secondary ATA100.

ATA100 is backwards compatible to DMA66 & 33. So if you put a hard drive that is ATA100 on a 66 controller it will run at 66.

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[BruceMyers48]

The OS I'm running is 98 2nd.Where would you get a third party boot manager. bruce

 

[Lars_Coleman]

I'm not sure of the names. Or one to recommend. I don't use them. I use the boot manager that the OS provides (ie. Linux, WinNT, and Win2000).

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[marneus]

It dont matter where the drives are too much... it is more important as 2 which OS U plan 2 have (I used one 40GB HDD to dual boot my system with W98SE & NT4 Server, all I needed was 2 partitions... surprisingly quite stable) some OS do need a boot manager, e.g. Linux (I think)... try system commander for one (there was a lite version 4 free on a coverCD a while back so downloads of it should B around)

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[Lars_Coleman]

Linux uses Lilo.

WinNT and 2000 have there own to.

But if you want to dual boot WinME and Win98 for some reason or another you would need a third party boot manager.

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[BruceMyers48]

Thanks, I might just install the other HD and just make extended partitions and dual boot fron it.Does win98 2nd have suppport for dual boot from another parition? Thanks Bruce