🚀 go-pugleaf

Ok, a few things to confirm. After wasting another hour of time on
this Buggy Hardware we do know a few things more:

1) It is true, if you keep the door open and hold down the open button
during boot the system BIOS does see this as a Plextor 8432. That is a
little disconcerting. It seems that it doesn't take much to make this
hardware run home to momma so to speak. It reverts back to being a
Plextor. Now this still didn't allow me to boot, but at least it seems
to point in the direction of this being a Plextor drive.

2) Creative has told me that the problem is with Windows 98 SE. "Your
going to have to call Microsoft." Their thinking is that it's in the
way the secondary IDE is being booted. But I can put any other piece
of hardware there and i can boot up, and the hard ware is recognized.
So I think that the passing of the buck is a little obvious.

3) Gateway just released a new BIOS update for my machine. I installed
it today, and we still got no where.

4) Next step will be to transfer the drive over to the Primary IDE
controlled and see if the Plextor BIOS flash will do it's job. I'll
let you know.

The Captain