06 Mar 2005, 09:22, WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140), wrote to MARTIN ATKINS:

Hi WAYNE.

 WC> Wayne CAN'T put the drive on C: with the existing motherboard 
 WC> I/O, the Promise Ultra66 I/O card does not support ATAPI in hardware 
 WC> as did a previous BIOS'edc Promise card I had in the 486.

 WC> Kinda sorta hard to load the software from the CD when the CD 
 WC> Drive isn't supported by the I/O card.

Similar to the problem I have with a non-ATAPI CD and a SCSI CD.  

Whenever I have to re-install Windows, and forget this problem, I put the
CD in the SCSI CD drive, then once Windows gets about 1/4 installed I get
an error message like 'CD not found, install aborted'.  Then I get to start
all over with the EBD floppy instead.

What happens in my case is that as soon as Windows installs the ATAPI
driver for the second CD, it changes the drive letter of the SCSI CD and
boom, end of install!  Real intelligent!    :-((

Wish I had the guts to load Linux!  But, getting too old for this dog to
learn new tricks now.  :-((


     Good luck...  M.

--- Msged/386 TE 06 (pre)