Hello, Wayne and Roy - -
-=> on 02-27-05 15:31, WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to ROY J. TELLASON <=-

 ->  What I wanted to try but haven't gotten around to yet was
 ->  disabling the ports in the CMOS setup
 -> seeing if the ones on the card would then be seen as hda, etc.

 WC> I did that, problem was the card doesn't hardware support ATAPI despite
 WC> being  advised otherwise by someone.
 WC> You have to have Windows or Windows extended drivers installe for the
 WC> card to see the CD-ROM drive.
 WC> All my current software is on CD so I HAD to leave the CD drive on
 WC> the motherboard I/O.

As demonstrated here - all that BS is a non-problem for Win98.  YMMV in
Linux.

 -> Odd.  I'm not sure what to make of that just yet. I expect I'll start
 -> bumping into this sort of thing when I actually get my hands on
 -> some larger drives (biggest I have now is a 10G,  which is
 -> sitting here waiting for me to install it).

 WC> Just don't use the original release fdisk and format that came with the
 WC> first Win 98 offering.

Not a prob for HDD < 64GB.  AAMOF, BIR M$ recommending to not install
the upgraded FDISK file unless needed.

 WC> There's an outside possibility I powered down the drive's power in
 WC> CMOS so I may try once more - -

I think that is what you _should_ have done, and that is what I _had_ to
do here, plus remove all IDE0 CHS info, plus change IDE0 to NONE in
Setup in order to get the HDD on the Promise Card seen as C:> in
DOS/Win.

 WC> but there were two major shortcomings this Ultra card had I was
 WC> advised would not be a probelm.

I must've missed something - - in addition to the notorious
and oft-repeated "no hardware support for CDROM", what was the second
"major shortcoming" of the promise card?

 WC> There wouldn't have been a problem if I'd just stuck with straight
 WC> Linux.

Too bad you didn't- - would have saved both of us much grief.  But it
was your idea to install both Linux and Win on the same spindle, not
mine.

- - -  JimH.


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