Ray Davison wrote:
> 
> I have a SIIG Ultra 66. I plugged a HDD into first master and ZIP as 
> first slave.  First no-go is Guest, the DOS driver, can't find the ZIP. 
>   ZIP works OK under OS/2.  SIIG said "sorry".  The box says
it supports 
> ZIP.
> 
> If the HDD is plugged in DOS, W98SE and OS/2 can all access it. 
> However, OS/2 boot stops after DANIS506 and SDDHELP because of "lost 
> messages".  If I run SIO, after SDDHELP it doesn't just stop, it crashes.

I really should clean my office more often.  Over in a corner, in 
amongst the packing material in a box left over from a WD HDD I got some 
time ago, was a Promise Ultra 100 card.  It doesn't recognize Guest 
either but it gives me a better option to run the second HDD from the 
card and put the Zip on the MB.

But then things got weird.  When drives have been changed the MB goes 
thru a lengthy process of reevaluation.  During one of the iterations it 
swapped the IDE ports on the MB; they are OK now.

The Zip is second master, that allows both CD and DVD to traded easily. 
  I had heard of problems where there is a slave and no master; this 
setup won't get past Verifying DMI pool if Zip doesn't have a slave.

The only primary is C: everything else is extended; mix of FAT16, FAT32 
and HPFS.  DOS Guest, DRFAT32 and iHPFS all work.  However, this MB 
tries to be helpful.  The BIOS always lists the Zip.  DOS, OS/2 and Win 
have drivers that assign it a letter after the last HDD.  But if there 
is a disk in the Zip it gets assigned to D: without waiting for an OS so 
the rest of the drive letters are pushed out one space and nothing boots 
properly.  So, boot without a disk.  But that is a good idea anyway; 
that way sometimes the eject button works under OS/2; unless you 
actually access the drive.  I never found a way to reliably eject.

Ray




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