You *should* have received a floppy diskette with your motherboard that has
various drivers for various operating systems. That file should be on that
disk.

I just had to install it today on a client's TX chipset motherboard in order
for her entire IDE controller system to work correctly. In her case, the file
was on the motherboard's floppy drive in a folder labelled, curiously enough,
win95.  It took some looking, but when it was done, the yellow exclamation mark
on the secondary controller was gone, and the hard drive was no longer
operating in MS-DOS compatibility mode.

Note:  This was a patch developed by the motherboard manufacturer for a known
conflict between Windows 95 and the Ultra DMA controller system in the Intel TX
chipset, and is NOT the "Intel Bus Mastering" drivers referred to earlier in
this thread.

Roxanne Pierce
R2 Systems, San Diego
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On Tuesday, March 03, 1998 12:36, Ron Taylor [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
wrote:
> I have installed a new MB(asus p4 430tx chip set) and Intel P233.  I am
> being asked for a a file that I can't seem to find.  ideatapi.mbd  Has
> anyone had a demand for this file?  Where did you find it?
>
> Ron