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Old October 30th 05, 05:35 AM
Ron Badour
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Default Secondary IDE controller problem

When you removed the controllers, did you do so from Safe Mode? Sometimes
entries show up in Safe Mode that are not present in Normal Mode. If all
else fails, buy a longer ribbon cable.

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"Jonno" wrote in message
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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.