Unable to boot from CD with PromiseTech Ultra

[Blueneko]

It is not a RAID controller card but..............
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=D
It would be a raid fasttrak 100 card with a small modification.....

http://www.tweakhardware.com/guide/raid100/
as i did with my ultra66 card

[RRLedford]

I have five storage devices: Device 1: Master: Maxtor 90845D4
Device 2: Slave: AOPEN CD-RW CRW2440
Device 3: Slave: E-IDE CD-ROM 52X/AKH
Device 4: ID 0 (0): IBM-DTLA-307030 TX4O
Device 5: ID 2 (0): WDC WD400BB-32CFC0 02.0
connected to: Adapter 1: Primary IDE Channel handling the first two;
Adapter 2: Secondary IDE Channel Highpoint not used
Adapter 3: Promise Ultra100 handling the IBM and WesternDigital drives.

Gilbert

Put the CDROM device for booting on the ATA33 1st Channel/as Master & make sure the it's jumpered for Master. Confirm that the CMOS setup for 1st BOOT Device is set to CDROM. Set the BIOS for AutoDetect this device. Confirm BIOS load detects the drive as ... CDROM. If the drive can read the boot info on the CD, it should boot. Have another bootable CDROM to test with?
If this fails, use a Win98 startup disk to initialize the drive with generic drivers. Then change to that drive letter & run the setup from it.