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Skriven 2004-12-23 10:33:18 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JIM HOLSONBACK
Ärende: EMM386
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-> As I recall, you have a Promise Ultra33 controller card.

No the great deal you gave me included a Promise Ultra66 I
successfully flashed to the latest BIOS.

-> What makes you think you have a Windows prob with the IRQs it uses?
-> What IRQs do you think the card assigns, anyway? 

Well the Promise card doesn't support ATAPI CD-ROM and that's where
I have to load my CD-ROM OEM software.

This means I have to leave the onboard controller card enabled
too use the CD drive.

Thusly the Promise card doesn't exist as the primary controller
but as another 2 primary channels, but the OEM Windows software
doesn't like this at all.

Windows starts to install just fine but when it calls
for reboot it fails for lack of a driver.
The driver is still available from from Promise download, archive
however to to install it? 

The manual specifies it be installed from withing an operating Windows
environment, a catch 22 situation.

->  WC> Still running Linux ramdisk.

->  WC> First primary is IRQ 14
->  WC> Second primary IRQ 15 and who knows what
->  WC> the Promise card assigns it's IRQs.

-> I expect your current Promise card uses 14 and 15, since those are
-> standard for Pri and Sec IDE.

I know it will if I disable the on motherboard existing I/O controller
but then how to load my software from a CD the Promise card doesn't
support, catch 22 again.
  
-> Have you carefully studied the
-> Installation Guide for your Promise card, and correctly loaded the
-> Windows DRIVER for it? I'd also think you may need to disable your
-> onboard IDE controller - - have you done that?

Seems little point as in so doing I can't load any software from 
the CD-ROM drive the Promise card doesn't support.

Anyway if I put too much time into in in a single day
I tire and inevitably make errors.                  
Believe me I've tried all the various configurations over a period of
a number of days so as to not tire and fry stuff.

I was able to leave the motherboard I/O enabled and load
Knoppix in command line configuration and fdisk the drive removing the
existing NTFS file system and create type C ( 32 bit Win 9x file
system), type 82 ( Linux swap), 2 - type 83 ( Linux native) partitions)
but they reside on /dev/hde which indicates the drive is seen as 
3rd primary on the Promise card.

Windows doesn't like this however and fails when the software
calls for rebootm rhis despite the fact I've only given Windows 8 Gig.

It's a OEM CD software problem that requires C: be seen as first primary
IDE channel, or such is what I've deduced.

Knoppix being intended as a demonstration release appears to suffer
a conflict in IRQ's resulting in a lockup of PSAUX ( mouse)
when I load the ramdisk GUI.

So there you have it.

It's cool, I was very gratefull for the anonymous H.D. donor's
generosity and I'll just have to get the Belkins I/O card from CompUSA.

The travel to the nearest CompUSA ( 14 miles by bus) is more daunting
than the price however I'll find a way.

Thanks for your continued interest and support.


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