> Follow-up, and thanks for the help!
> The culprit was sharing the ribbon connector with the two hard drives.
> Now, I've always believed that one puts hard drives on the primary
> ribbon, and other stuff like CDR's on the secondary.  Well, now I'm
> confused on this, but moving the two hard drives to different
> ribbons--and using both primary and secondary connectors on the
> motherboard, took the C drive from 125k/sec transfer to 5125k/sec.
> Quite an improvement!
> Now, a Promise Ultra 66 seems in order.

     There is no said rule as to how HDs and CDROMs should be hooked up,
alot of people have theories and practices they follow, but I have found
with modern hardware it almost never makes a difference any more. And then
there are cases like yours! :) If you ever find out why your controller
doesn't like both drives on the primary please let us know. I myself had a
problem like this as well, nothing on the secondary channel wanted to be
recognized. Turned out that the secondary channel would only be recognized
if the primary channel was full, both master and slave?! Never figured that
one out either, but at least it now works. Glad you got it working, TTYL

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