abit BE-6

so there are problems w/ the ata66? i sort of wanted to use this controller on my BE6 (not 2) . i have ide cdrom and zip drive on channel 2 and my data drive on channel 1......then i wanted to have my ata66 drive on channel one of the ata66..... this doesnt work? or you all were just doing that to free up some IRQs.......? i do have a brick stitch load of devices loaded into my machine......including a firewire card ethernet and whatever else.....i know i should probably disable some of these things for music recording..;;;i am just puting this beastie together......i have everything...i am actually expanding and building a new box for 3d and giving my older box to PT and teh 001.....its buff enough be6, 450pIII, 512 MB of ram, ads firewire card, 11gig maxtor OS drive, 30GB ibm storage drive, 3com ethernet, matrox dual head g400MAX, sbLive value and i think thats about it....... any advice on slot order and irq settings? thanks. _x

I can't offer any advise on slot postions, or specifics about getting the 001 running on the BE6. I can tell you that the rumors about the High Point ATA 66 controler on that board being bogus are true. I was having problems with my BE6 system locking up during periods of high disk activity with ATA 66 drives connected to the built in High Point ATA 66 controller. I also tried connecting CD and DVD ROM drives and CD writers to that controller. Most of it seemed to work, but sometimes, accessing a CD on that controller would cause a lockup. I know some people are using the BE6 for PTLE. They have simply put all their drives on the ATA 33 controller to avoid the problems with the High Point controller. I wanted to use an ATA 66 controller for my ATA 66 drives. Since the BE6 (unlike the BE6-2) cannot disable the High Point controller in BIOS, I decided to get a different motherboard all together, so I've never tried the Abit board with PTLE. Everything else sounds good. As long as you don't use the built-in ATA 66 controller on the BE6 board you should have a nice PTLE systme there. The 512Mb RAM is overkill though. I am now running with 256Mb. I used to have 320Mb. I took out 64Mb of it as an experiment. Since I can't tell in operation that the additional 64Mb is gone, I just never put it back. 256Mb is the useful limit as far as I could tell. Mike

hey, thanks for the reply. this machine was my old worksatation....used for maya photoshop and after effects. in those applications, there is no such thing as overkill w/ ram. it is being retired now to be my pt rig as i have built another box for my graphics workstation. thanks for the info. i was having a piss poor time w/ the promise controller. it has been just behaving badly.....i cant even startup with a drive plugged into it. it has mostly been backing up file from the drive that i will be using form audio as of late. havent plugged the pt card in....i had it on an old mac of mine for a while, but it wasnt loving that....hehe. i do wish i could just plug the beast into a g3/g4 tower because of the sheer volume of plugins available on the mac side, but you gots to work w/ what you got, i guess.... have fun _x