"Matt Mc_Carthy" bravely wrote to "WAYNE CHIRNSIDE" (07
Mar 05  00:12:21)
 --- on the heady topic of "Win98FE Harddrivicide?"

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

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

 MM> Whenever I have to re-install Windows, and forget this problem, I put
 MM> the CD in the SCSI CD drive, then once Windows gets about 1/4
 MM> installed I get an error message like 'CD not found, install aborted'.
 MM> Then I get to start all over with the EBD floppy instead.
 MM> What happens in my case is that as soon as Windows installs the ATAPI
 MM> driver for the second CD, it changes the drive letter of the SCSI CD
 MM> and boom, end of install!  Real intelligent!    :-((

I think enabling the scsi ctrlr bios will make win see it on install.
At least it does here.

 M*i*k*e

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