Paul:

You might be able to tame the beast by shuffling your PCI cards.  Some
motherboard manufacturers' sites identify which slots are shared with
which - and which is unique.

Erik


Paul Tansom wrote:
> 
> Sorry for the new thread, but my mail is downloaded at home and I am in a shell
> on my mail server connected from work at the moment.
> 
> Anyway, I tried the ATA boot diskette last night and it worked great in terms
> of detecting the card and identifying it as a HPT366 chipset.  Unfortunately it
> then hung at the same point (i.e. just after identifying the DVD and ZIP on
> ide0 and 1 respectively).  I would suspect a hardware clash but for the fact
> that I already have Win98 installed and working on the machine, and Red Hat 7
> and Debian 2.2 both start the installation fine.  Storm reports the USB which
> the other two don't and this is showing on the same IRQ as the ATA66 card.  I'm
> guessing that it locks when the card is queried to detect the devices attached.
> 
> Anyone got any pointers on where to look to confirm this?  I have to be careful
> not to destroy my Windows installation - yet ;-)
> 
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