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".

 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.

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