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Old October 29th 05, 08:26 AM
Jonno
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Default Secondary IDE controller problem

Thank you for your reply poatt. However I can confirm that the cables are
properly seated and the jumper settings on the drive correct. As I said, the
drive works perfectly well at the BIOS level and in DOS. Only Windows has a
problem with it.

"poatt" wrote:


Check to make sure the cable is seated all the way into the Drive and the MB
slot.
Is the cable not turned upside down at one end? Where is the jumper set?
It might have come loose. There should be a jumper diagram on the back of
the drive.
Post back.

"Jonno" wrote:

Running Win98 on a PIII 450 with 64 MB RAM, I cannot see the CD drive.

This is strange for many reasons, not least of which. I installed the OS
from a CD!

The CD drive is visible to the BIOS, and works well if I boot to DOS with
the Win98 floppy.

In Windows there is a problem with the Secondary IDE controller (dual fifo)
– “The device is either not present, not working properly or does not have
all the drivers installed (Code 10)�.

I tried updating the driver, but Windows reported that it already had the
best one. I tried deleting the whole Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE
Controller (from device manager) and rebooting, and both primary IDE and
secondary IDE controllers seemed to reinstall properly, but the problem was
still there.

To pre-empt a question, I am using the Secondary IDE controller because the
computer case is so badly designed I cannot get the CD drive on the same
cable as the hard drive.

I’d be grateful for any thoughts or advice on this one.