Second IDE port problems on Gateway E-3200

[kturnerga]

Hello
My shop has gotten in several Gateways and I am unable to get the second IDE port operational in these units. They are PII/300 desktops. Sometimes Gateway's driver is needed but this should not be the case. I have made sure the Phoenix bios shows the drive as auto but this doesn't work. Why?
What am I missing? Is there a Windows setting I should look for?

[condor]

well you should give some more info - but I'll assume you're using Windows 95 on old Intel 440LX mobos with the CD-ROM set as Secondary Master or nothing connected there.

in Windows device manager you get the yellow "!" on the second IDE.

first do a search in the registry for "noide"

if you find something - kill it .. (as in delete)

a few fixes possible are :

Intel Bridge Fix - For all versions of Windows (ftp://download.intel.com/design/software/drivers/platform/3799/inf_utility/infinst_enu.zip)



and this :

Intel BusMaster IDE driver For Windows 95 (ftp://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/drivers/busmastr/bmide_95.exe)

and you might try this too (solved the porblem in weird cases) : (only in win95)
http://www.mke.panasonic.co.jp/driver/58x_9x.exe