Thanks to those that responded.
I discovered that there MUST be a drive in the SyQuest before booting when
loading Win98.
BTW SyQuest's web page is now back on line ...it had been closed since
their November bankruptcy .

m

>> I am upgrading  a 486 DOS PC with a new Pentium / motherboard  running
>> WIn98. The 486 had a EIDE hard drive with a SyQuest EZDrive as a slave.
>> First I had the hard drive on the primary...a new CD ROM on the secondary
>
> please restart your computer. Next I tried running with the Hard drive
>> alone on the master and the SyQuest as a Master to the slave CD
>> ROM......same general protection fault. Finally I tried the hard drive as a
>> Master on primary and the SyQuest as a master on secondary....same problem.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong.? How am I suppose to set this up in Win98 ??
>>
>> Thanks
>> m

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