Sure will. I am sure I still have it in a box somewhere. I will try to post back sooner than I did this time. :-( Sorry dude!

Well for the life of me I can not find my boot disk. But here is a site ClickMe has some old DOS drivers for various Promise Controller cards.

Saying that, I re-read your post and I must apologize as I wasn't reading it clearly. So I have another solution, as the way I fixed my problem was that is was not the same, as what you are currently experiencing was different. :cry: But none the less you can fix your problem by using the attached file. Unzip it to a floppy disk and use it after booting up with a Windows 98 boot disk and run DM.exe (Drive Manager)

Why? Because DOS by nature does not support UDMA so the above drivers probably won't be much help.

So instead try hooking your system up to the regular connections and use the floppy disk to configure your drive. It is the last version I have heard of for Quantum's Drive Manager w/ Dynamic Overlay which worked wonders for me. Hope it helps you. :-|

Hope this helps!?!

Thanks Paladine,

I installed a new 40 gig Western Digital drive with no problems. So the problem must hav been the Quantum drive. Perhaps the drive has a quirk that does not allow the Promise card to see its full capacity.

The Promise card does not need a DDO to see the full 20 gig of the Quantum. All it sees is 9 MB (out of 20 gigs!). Or perhaps the drive is just bad.

Hey glad to hear you go things fix mcamax! Sounds like the quantum drive is toast if the drive is not reading correctly. Believe me I feel your pain. Quantum hard drives were the best in their time. Every drive I had since Windows 3.11 days was a quantum. I was the first on my "block" to have a 1GB Quantum. Oh how sweet that was. And fast too boot!

Hi Paladine,
Well, the Quantum drive is not toast after all. Some additional research on the web suggested that the drive may be locked - necessary for TiVo, I hear. Anyway, I found two unlocking programs called qunlock and diskutil. These run from DOS and send an unlock signal to the attached drive. I'm not sure which one worked, but one of them did! And my Quantum now shows the full 20 gigs rather than the 9MB. So all's well!

Ah, the days of Win 3.1... did you ever try a shell called Calmira that made Win 3.1 look like Win 95 GUI? I still have a box of small drives. Smallest is 100MB from my 1991 Dell 433 (33 MHz 486SX).