Iwill KA266 AMD OHCI USB controller Fix!

[Babster]

I was totally unable to use my ATI TV Wonder USB with my KA266 raid. It was pointed out on several boards that the main problem is the use of the OHCI USB standard on the Iwill KA266.

After hunting the web, I found that Microsoft has a fix posted which basically supplies an updated openhci.sys file. Soon as I ran the fix, my TV Wonder USB stopped freezing as soon as the program was run!

Give it a try!

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q241/1/34.ASP

 

[el]

babster I read your post about setting up the raid drives on your board do you think that I should follow those guidelines for setting up my two thirty gig HD in raid? I was wondering if you just did trial and error or used a Faq like the fullon3d one. Is there a special raid faq for the kk266-r or maybe even a ka266 would show me the way. I'll link your old post so this makes more sense to other people.

 

[el]

Babsters old Raid info

Okay.
Set both hard drives that you are going to use in the raid array as master with the jumpers.

Put an 80-pin cable from each hard drive to each of the YELLOW raid ports.

All of your remaining hard drives and CDROM/ZIP drives need to be attached to the BLUE primary and secondary IDE ports.

Go into bios, use CTRL M to enter the hyperdisk (Or MegaRaid now with the 4-16-01 bios). Set up a raid 0 array with a 32k strip.

Go into bios and DISABLE primary and secondary IDE, or DOS will not see the Raid Array.

Have a Win98 boot disk with fdisk and format on it. Boot to dos, and you should see a hard drive equal to the size of the two combined drives (mine sees a 58mb HDD for my two IBM 75gxp 30gig hard drives).

Fdisk the array into the partitions you want - patience is required here as it error checks every step of the way, and it will be a time consuming process.

Set the primary partition as active.

Reboot, and format the partitions with the following command: format c: z:32. This sets the block size most compatible with the 32k stripe.


Windows will NOT be able to install while you have the primary and secondary IDE channels enabled! To get your windows setup directory on the hard drive, you must go back into the bios and reenable the primary and secondary IDE channels. Reboot. Now you should be able to Xcopy your WIN98 directory to the C: drive (so you can install win98 from the \win98 directory).

Go back into bios. DISABLE the primary/secondary channels again. Boot to the C: prompt with your boot floppy. go to the \win98 directory and run setup.exe.

After windows is installed, then you can go back into bios and reenable the primary and secondary IDE channels so you have your data drive and cdroms.

It's a pain in the *** and it drove me crazy until I figured it out. For even more details (written MUCH more clearly than this post), go to the KK266 raid faq here:

http://www.fullon3d.com/kk266faq/kk266faq.shtml#RAID

(both the KK266 and the KA266 share the same AMI raid chip, so the setup is the same)


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Iwill KA266R, 512mb Crucial PC2100
AMD AVIA 1.2 Tbird at 1333 (133x10)
Two IBM 30-gig 75gxp's in Raid 0
Voodoo 5-5500, MX300 sound, Intel Pro Mgmt 100+ nic
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