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SOYO Motherboard SY-6BA+ IV User Manual

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The ATA 66 Driver installation

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Your Hard Disk to know how to partition and format a hard disk drive.

2. Checking the Installation

If you want to check if the HPT366 host adapter and its device driver are

correctly installed, you can:

(1.) Open My Computer

(2.) Open Control Panel

(3.) Double click icon SCSI Adapters

(4.) You should see the item HPT366 Ultra DMA Controller (started)

listed

3. Partitioning Your Hard Disk

If the hard disk drive attached to the HPT366 host adapter has not been

partitioned and formatted yet, you need to partition it first. To partition the

hard disk drive attached to the HPT366 host adapter, follow the following

steps:

(1.) Click the Startup button

(2.) Go to Administrative Tools (Common)

(3.) Run Disk Administrator

(4.) Select disk number you would like to partition

(5.) Select the menu Partition

(6.) Decide the partition size create partition of the size

(7.) Exit Disk Administrator

(8.) Select the new created partition (logical disk drive) and format it

4. Troubleshooting

The boot manager for Windows NT contains recovery logic to allow you

to return to the last known good configuration. If you have changed your

host adapter configuration and Windows NT no longer boots, follow these

steps to recover:

1. Undo any hardware changes you have made to the computer since it

was last operational.

2. Reboot the computer. Watch the display carefully during booting up.

If the following message appears, press the Spacebar and follow the