> We are trying to revive an old gateway2000 P5-60. After a crash the disk
> has been reformatted, but even with the backup and original cd drivers
> (mitsumi fx-series proprietary bus), we lost access to cd drive. (All the
> files and lines in autoexec and config as they should be) CMOS
> picks up only the HD.  Downloaded generic cd driver does not work either
> on mitsumi interface card.
>
> We installed win95 using diskettes. It installed all right, but the
> machine is very, very slow.
>
> In Device Manager there is no line for cdrom or Other Devices. Also, under
> HD controller there is no line referring to Intel. Under HD controller
> there is only 'IDE/ESDI HD controller'.
>
> The bios is AMIBios 92 1.00.06.AF1, 586PCI Mercury mothorboard, pentium
> 586 processor, WD540IDE HD. FCC ID: HWYBATP5PT.
>
> How can we get (download & install) the intel under HD controllers ?
> (we had no luck with gateway pages and no useful support from gateway tech
> help ..)


        I'm kind of confused here: does thae hard drive work? If so then you
shouldn't be worried about drivers for the IDE controllers, they are already
there. The CDROM you speak of is NOT an IDE device and is not connected to
the IDE controller, it has a seperate interface. This type of CDROM will not
be picked up by the BIOS. Windows has drivers for this type of CDROM built
in the oldest versions of Windows, look under the add new hardware control
panel applet, select CDROMs and select Mitsumi, select the correct one. Hope
this helped. TTYL

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