-> JIM HOLSONBACK wrote in a message to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE:

->  JH> Also FWIW,  for the installation here,  Win98SE sees the Promise
->  JH> card as a SCSI device, and a single IRQ (11), is assigned to the
->  JH> card, covering both IDE/ATAPI channels.

-> Interesting.

->  JH> The card supports ATAPI devices, but only after the proper driver 
->  JH> for the card is installed in Windows or other PnP OS (LInux).

-> Linux is NOT what you'd ordinarily consider "a PnP OS".  In
other words, if
-> there's a cmos setting for that,  you'd normally pick "no".

Linux properly saw the CD but only because I left it on the 
motherboard I/O.
The Ultra66 card was no problem for Linux.

->  JH> Even after HDD is fully recognized by the Promise card, and CDROM 
->  JH> drive shows on the spash screen I mentioned above, the ATAPI CDROM 
->  JH> drive will not be found by the DOS based driver (oakcdrom.sys) 
->  JH> used by Win9x, or any of the SCSI HDD drivers which are on the 
->  JH> Win9x emergency/startup diskette.

-> Those drivers (which are also on the win OPK floppies) seem to be mostly aimed
-> at various adaptec controllers.

->  JH> So, trying to load Win9x onto HDD on Promise card will have to be
->  JH> as you tried it -  with the CDROM drive attached to the onboard
->  JH> IDE.  The CDROM drive can be moved to the Promise card later.

->  JH> The driver software I downloaded from the Promise website is about
->  JH> worthless, and didn't work.  It is a faulty copy from a diskette
->  JH> which originally had separate directories for drivers for Win2K,
->  JH> Win95-98, WinNT4, and WinMe.  It comes through minus the
->  JH> subdirectories, with multiple instances of different files with
->  JH> same filename. I'm running the Promise card here with the driver sw
->  JH> I got from the MicronPC website.

-> Weird.

I found the software to be unzipped onto the floppy without
directories as well.
Then I created the directories and moved the appropriate files into
them.
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