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scan80269 · 05-06-2004

I get the funny feeling that PlexTools may have a problem working with your Promise IDE controller card.

Have you tried switching your IDE devices around and trying PlexTools 2.14 again? Assuming your hard disks are not in RAID mode, there are a few alternative IDE drive configurations you can experiment with:

1. Hard disks and Plextor on motherboard IDE, Pioneer drives on Promise controller.
2. Hard disks and Pioneer drives on motherboard IDE, Plextor on Promise.
3. Hard disks and Plextor on motherboard IDE, Promise controller and Pioneer drives temporarily removed.

These configs, especially #3, should help determine whether the move recent PlexTool releases have a compatibility problem with your Promise controller.

The only catch is that Window 2000 may give a blue-screen crash during bootup when the OS hard disk is abruptly moved to a different IDE controller. This is known behavior and will require some special registry modifications and driver file copying to be done prior to actually changing IDE controllers. I can provide some pointers should you need them.

Good luck!

05-06-2004	#15 (permalink)
scan80269 CD Freaks Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: California, USA Posts: 208	Re: Plextools Crash / Freeze Problem (2.09/2.10) I get the funny feeling that PlexTools may have a problem working with your Promise IDE controller card. Have you tried switching your IDE devices around and trying PlexTools 2.14 again? Assuming your hard disks are not in RAID mode, there are a few alternative IDE drive configurations you can experiment with: 1. Hard disks and Plextor on motherboard IDE, Pioneer drives on Promise controller. 2. Hard disks and Pioneer drives on motherboard IDE, Plextor on Promise. 3. Hard disks and Plextor on motherboard IDE, Promise controller and Pioneer drives temporarily removed. These configs, especially #3, should help determine whether the move recent PlexTool releases have a compatibility problem with your Promise controller. The only catch is that Window 2000 may give a blue-screen crash during bootup when the OS hard disk is abruptly moved to a different IDE controller. This is known behavior and will require some special registry modifications and driver file copying to be done prior to actually changing IDE controllers. I can provide some pointers should you need them. Good luck!