THANKS EMERIC, but ?????

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Thanks to Emeric for his article on dual boot !! His article and the advise of many others from this great forum made my new set up a breeze. BUT, I STILL HAVE A DRIVER QUESTIONS THAT I THOUGHT SOMEONE MAY HAVE THE ANSWER FOR. Here is my new set up:

1. Asus CUSL2-C with Intel 815 chipset (no sound or video on board).
2. P-III 733 MHz
3. Vanta AGP video card
4. Ark 24\96 audio
5. Primary master - Quantum 7200 rpm, 40 gig IDE HD
6. Primary slave - Fujitsu 5400 rpm HD (I plan to use for audio backup files untill I put it in a computer for Wife's office)
7. Secondary master is CD rom
8. Secondary slave is CD burner
9. 384 meg of memory
10 I set up a dual boot on the Quantum primary master
a. Household partiton- full win-98 OS, 4 gig, for internet and non-recording crap.
b. Recording partition- limited win-98 OS, 36 gig, with N-track and other recording apps.
11. I optimized my system with an article I got from the TASCAM support site.

FINALLY HERE IS THE PROBLEM - While optimizing I noticed that on one partition (recording), the HD's were identified as generic 47, in device manager, and the drivers were standard Intel which allowed me to enable the DMA box under settings tab.

On the other partition (internet and crap), the HD's were labeled by name but there is no DMA box to check. I figured out why! These drivers came of the Asus CD, and were ultra DMA from intel, and 3 years newer. QUESTION WHICH DRIVER TO USE? I haven't had the chance to record much since the install but both seem to work fine.

Any advise on driver question and/or set up would be GREATLY APPRECIATED !!!
Larrye
 
Dang it Gidge, I already got the article on dual boot, I USED it to do my successful dual boot set up. Please re-read my post and see if you can help. I really respect the knowledge you have demonstrated in this BBS.
Thanks,
LARRYe
 
Hi Larrye,

Use the one on the ASUS CD.

On the ASUS CD that came with the CUSL2 - Intel Ultra ATA Storage driver (something like that). Run that and it will eliminate the 'generic' setting that your seeing in device manager.(as well as improve disk performance.) There will be no DMA checkbox, and the drive will be identified under 'disk drives' as Quantum if you installed correctly.

Install the Intel 'INF' update first(not critical, but preferable), then the ATA storage driver (they may call it 'utility').

I'd use your 40GB as the audio data drive and use the 5GB for dual booting. Which would mean starting all over again... hehe. but...

You would get a more mileage(better performance as well) that way. Even if you were installing some large game, you could point it to a root folder on the 40GB if needed.

I'll provide some more detail on this if you like.

Good to hear the article help you out!
 
The article was great!
Thanks for the answer about the driver's, I have the Intel ATA ultra 100 ones installed, Just wanted to know if they were the best one. You said yes so I guessed right.
I already have the dual boot on the 40 gig. Is it worth doing it all over again, by dual booting on the 4 gig drive?
 
sorry larry, that wasnt an answer to your post....I just threw it out as a reminder for others looking to dual boot.....
 
Hey Emeric,
If you think I should redo my dual boot send me details on where to install hardware and software. Now that I have done it once it won't be that big a deal to do it one more time.
Thanks a bunch,
LARRYe
 
If you ever make that change (I'm saying that while moonwalking), to improve performance even more, you could maybe consider having your HDs on separate IDE cables instead of slaving one to the other.
 
If your up to doing it over again, I'd set it up as follows:

Primary Master - Fujitsu
Primary Slave - CD-ROM
Secondary Master - 40GB
Secondary Slave - CD-RW

If you really need a CD-ROM and CD-RW. I like to keep the audio data drive on it's own ribbon, similiar to what giashel said. Burners read pretty fast these days, and disk to disk copying rarely works well. As for wear and tear on the CD-RW, I've never noticed any problems, odds are you will replace it long before it breaks anyway(unless it's an HP or an ACER :) ).

Primary Master - Hard Drive
Primary Slave - CD-RW
Secondary Master - Audio Hard Drive


I'm not sure how large the fujitsu is. If it's an older drive (like a 3GB), than this may not be a worthwhile setup. If it's a 10GB or so, I'd split it 50/50 and setup your dual boot on it.

Install all software to the Fujitsu. Use the 40GB for audio data only. If space is getting low on the fujitsu, you could always tell the program to install to your 40GB. Although, I don't recommend that route. If the fujitsu is small, you might be better off picking up a new drive for your dual boot setup - 20GB or something. Especially if your planning on moving this drive to another machine anyway.
 
Man, you guy from up north really know your stuff!

The Fujitsu is only 4 gig, but I only use MS word, Quicken, and the internet, in addition to recording apps, so it might be big enough.

If I buy another HD should it be 7200 rpm or would 5400 be ok, since it would be for applications only?

I think I will take out the CD rom and use seperate cable for audio data.
 
5400 is plenty fast for applications. The price difference is not much though between them.

Strangly enough, I'm in the process of rebuilding my machine today. The only drive I had here was a 20GB maxtor, 5400 RPM so I'm partitioning that up. The previous drive was 8GB which I found was getting too small for W2K and dual boot. I'm going for 2 boots of Windows 2000 and one boot of 98 for wolfenstein when it comes out... :)
 
Emeric,

these may seem like newbie points but I am running Windows XP right now and am thinking of setting up a dual boot using your method. 2 questions

1. in Xp I can get the dos command box to come up so i asssume that typing sys a: will work as normal?

2. does masterbooter work for all OSs or would say if I have Win 98 on one partition for net and games and part 2 for audio be a problem for it?

thanks.

On a sidenote the Wolfenstien demo is brilliant fun. nothing like that rocket launcher being fired onto the beachhead or a bunker to relieve a little everyday stress!:D
 
Hey Alchemist, I didn't see your post till now.

1. I doubt it will work. You need a 98 boot disk to do the partioning etc. SYS is not part of W2K, so I doubt it is with XP, but who knows.

2. Yes, it should work no problems. I did run into some though. W2K seems to have taken over that partition, even though it was hidden (sneaky MS).

However, I think it's working again. I booted to safe mode with it accidently. It may be just having other problems that I havn't got around to fixing.

Install XP's first and 98's last.

Get a 98 boot disk.

Using efdisk, parition it as needed.

Don't hide any of them yet.

Format them

Format c:

Format d: /s

run efdisk and hide the XP partition

Install your CD-ROM drivers (or boot from the cd, mine doesn't work for some reason with 98)

Run efdisk again.

Hide the 98 partition.

In BIOS set the boot sequence so it will boot off of the XP CD-ROM.

Install XP

Run, efdisk again and hide the XP install.

Should boot to your windows 98 partition and your cd-rom should be working (the dualboot article has a link to a cd driver, samsung that works with 99% of CD-ROMs if you have problems there)

Install 98

Run efdisk, unhide both partitions

Reboot

Run mrbooter.exe and select your boot sequence etc.

Feel free to email me or post here if you run into problems.

I'm a firm believer in dual boot setups, its saved me a lot of grief over the past couple years.

BTW - physically unplug the ribbon from other hard drives before doing this - it's very very easy to wipe data with efdisk or fdisk etc.
 
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