1. AbitBE6-IIHPT366biosanddriver.zip Driver
2. Abit BE6-II HPT366 bios and driver.txt File Contents

Abit BE6-II HPT366 bios and driver.txt Driver File Contents (AbitBE6-IIHPT366biosanddriver.zip)

To use the BE6-II onboard HPT366 UDMA controller with IBM and MAxtor ATA/100 drives, you need to upgrade the HPT366 bios to rev. 128 beta.  The only way to do this is to actually upgrade the motherboard BIOS with a beta version of the behxu BIOS from Abit.  Unfortunately the latest official BIOS rev from Abit for the BE6-II is beh70, which enables support for PIII and Celeron CPUs up to 1.1 GHz (100MHz FSB) so if you need that you are stuck.  Behxu is the second most recent offical BIOS update so hopefully that has all you need.

I was unfortunate enough to have an IBM-DTLA ATA-100 drive in my Abit BE6-II on which I was trying to do a clean install of WinXP Pro.  I had the XU Bios on my BE6-II, and that meant I had the 1.25 Bios on my onboard HPT366 UDMA/66 controller.  After many failed attempts at trying to load the drivers for the controller during the WinXP install, I began searching the Internet and found that the HPT366 had two BIOS revs, 126 beta and 128 beta that fixed incompatibilities with IBM and Maxtor ATA-100 drives.  However because they were Betas there was no official support for them from Abit.  After digging around some more (google is your friend) I found a section of the Abit site that did have beta BIOS and drivers.  So I grabbed the beta behxu128 BIOS which is the regular behxu BIOS plus the 128 beta rev BIOS for the HPT366, and the 128 version drivers (remember the driver version and the BIOS version MUST MATCH).  After flashing the BIOS and using the drivers during the WinXP install, all worked beautifully.  I did get a couple dialog boxes during the install warning me that the drivers weren't WHQL certified for WinXP, but they worked just fine.


The list of official Abit BE6-II BIOS release can be found here:

http://fae.abit.com.tw/eng/download/bios/be6ii.htm


These are the beta releases that support the 128 beta BIOS of the HPT366 controller:

http://fae.abit.com.tw/download/beta/be6-ii(HPT366)/bios/128/


And here is a link to the drivers for the 128 beta BIOS:

http://fae.abit.com.tw/download/beta/be6-ii(HPT366)/driver/1.28/


And finally is the BIOS and driver list for Highpoint, makers of the HPT366

http://www.highpoint-tech.com


So first, upgrade your motherboard BIOS to behxu128, power down, then reset the CMOS.  When I ran the BIOS upgrade it finished but was locked up, meaning I couldn't do anything other than ctrl-alt-del, but the upgrade finished fine and when I reboot I could see the BIOS had changed on the HPT366 from 1.25 to 1.28.  Then copy the drivers to a floppy and during the WinXP install, press F6 to install "3rd party drivers".

That's about it.  I hope this works for you like it did for me.  BTW, These files are as I found them, with the exception of the RUNME.BAT file which I edited to point to the correct BIOS file name.  I can't take any responsibility for any damage you might do with these, I am simply putting everything together in one place.

Jason Coon
October 25th, 2002
jason_coon1@hotmail.com