First post, by jimnastics
I have a Gateway 2000 P5-75 here with a fresh install of Windows 98. I have one HDD (WD 820mb) running as master on the primary IDE as the OS drive, and then another HDD (Quantum Fireball 8gb) and CD-ROM (Torisan sr16) running as master and slave respectfully on secondary IDE.
In Device Manager there is an exclamation mark on Secondary IDE controller (dual fifo), and the FIreball and CD-ROM are not listed in Disk drives. Both these drives do, however, appear in My Computer and seem to be fully usable in the Windows environment. If I boot to DOS, they are also present and usable there. Under the Performance tab it has the "Drive X is using MS-DOS compatability mode file system" message for both the Fireball and the CD-ROM (D and E drives).
In my autoexec there as an MSCDEX entry which I gather is likely forcing the CD-ROM into DOS mode in Windows, however if I rem this line, the drive simply doesn't show in Windows, add new hardware doesn't find anything. I tried moving the CD-ROM to be slave to the OS hdd on the primary IDE, Windows would simply hang at boot, not showing any errors.
I've noticed CD-ROM performance is especially slow, I'm assuming due to using DOS mode. The Fireball I imagine is also underperforming, but I've not used it much yet.
Could anyone offer advice on how I can fix this problem? Any troubleshooting tricks I can try to narrow down the problem? I tried searching for drivers for both devices but failed!