WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

->  What I wanted to try but haven't gotten around to yet was disabling 
-> the ports in the CMOS setup and 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
 WC> despite being  advised otherwise by someone. You have to have 
 WC> Windows or Windows extended drivers installe for the card to see 
 WC> the CD-ROM drive.

Maybe making the necessary floppies would get you past that?

 WC> All my current software is on CD so I HAD to leave the CD drive on
 WC> the motherboard I/O.

Or if you really do want windoze on there do it from the HD,  like someone
suggested.  I've also had it suggested to me in the past that those cab
files be stashed on the HD for hardware changes,  etc. but never had the
luxury of the space to do that yet,  and these days I probably wouldn't
give that OS that much drive.

-> WC> Linux last saw the drive as 85 Gig when in fact it's a 65 Gig drive
-> WC> after attempting to install Windows first.

-> 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
 WC> the first Win 98 offering.

I won't be putting 98 on that box anyhow.

-> WC> Now even on the Promise card the drive isn't seen at all.

-> Weird.

 WC> Yeah, I doubt dd will work when neither fdisk /dev/hde or fdisk -l
 WC> see the drive.

 WC> There's an outside possibility I powered down the drive's power in
 WC> CMOS so I may try once more but there were two major
 WC> shortcomings this Ultra card had I was advised would not be a
 WC> probelm. 

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

Yep!

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