Hi,
sometimes ago I have bought a Promise IDE PCI controller, TX2 ULTRA100. I need to connect a CD-rom Asus 50x. Promise told me that I could do it. At first it worked without problems but after the autorun didn’t started because the peripheral didn’t see the cd. For once the operative system told me that the unity in the reader was not FORMATTED. It’s evident a bad recognition of the peripheral from the system. After some days the CD-rom was broken. Promise told me that the controller was defective and sent me a TX2 ULTRA 133, connecting it this time my IBM 120 GXP hard disk and I have risked to damage it with the IBM utility “drive fitness test” formatting at low level through their controller. They said “we have fully used the utilityand it has worked” it was absolutely not true, also confirmed by IBM which had warned me in precedence that the functions of the program would not have been available. I have tried to install WindowsXP but the procedure is stopped with a message: Anerror is occurred, the loading of the system has been stopped for avoiding a damage hardware.I have tried to connect the hard disk to the mainboard Ide channel and I have ascertained that the driver of the controller wasn’t loaded. It continue to bestrange the reticence of Asus to answer on a possible damage of the cd rom connected to a PCI IDE controller. Promise has talked of an incompatibility to the series 180 GXP, but evidently it subsists also with mine. It also seemed to be a loss of data that unfortunately I cannot quantify. If I inserted the controller on the slot 5 (motherboard A7V266-C) the hard disk wasn’t recognized and If I inserted it on the slot 1 and 2 the operative system assigned the same IRQ ( 11) of the graphic card, therefore to risk of problems on the sharing of resources. On the slot 4 the motherboard not handed defeasible the post and spontaneously restart in a loop.