"JEAN PARROT" wrote to "MATT MC_CARTHY" (06 Jun 03  09:17:00)
 --- on the topic of "Twins IDE or not ?"

 JP> Another problem reared its ugly head a few days ago. This old
 JP> P166 will not see the CD-ROM anymore. If I use an ERD with the
 JP> OAK CD loader, ( Load DOS with CD capability )there it is so
 JP> the device and connections are good. Looking at System, I see
 JP> that the Primary and Secondary IDE ( Single FIFO bot of them )
 JP> and the Standard PCI IDE Controler have this yellow ! showing.
 JP> I uninstalled both of them by removing the PCI IDE Controler
 JP> and restarted the system. I found all again and said that it
 JP> installed all and it should be happy but it is not. Device
 JP> Manager again shows the yellow ! and no CD device. I went to
 JP> BIOS and selected Standard setup, restarted but still no CD.
 JP> Where should I look ?

Hmmm, this happened to me the other day but I don't remember what steps
I took to fix it. I think keeping track of how many IDE drivers are
loaded, as each controller requires one. Only one driver loaded would
mean it missed something and 3 loaded would cause interference.
Sometimes this happens with a mix of pnp and ISA cards. Change the
appropriate entry in the bios PNP/PCI/IRQ tables to reflect which ISA
card hogs what irq. Incidentally, have you tried the Add New Equipment,
or Multimedia icons yet? Or the help diagnostics? BTW sometimes when win
asks to restart so that it can load the new devices answer NO and stop
it instead. Then turn off the computer if the softswitch didn't. I think
this way the mb pnp handler gets reset properly instead of through the
warm or cold boot. BTW some mb bios even have a reset feature so that
one can use DEL instead of power off.

... Half the work in debugging is making the other bugs work right.
--- Blue Wave/DOS v2.30