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Your close questionings and combined incredulity did the trick. If I didn’t get it and you didn’t get it …. So, I borrowed Occam’s Razor and cut a path to the local computer fair. I’ve installed an ITE IT8182 as a replacement IDE/RAID controller and lo and behold! Now I have my two disks powering along. Might also take up the suggestion to stripe them (RAID 0), or span the two drives, neither of which had been in my initial plan. Knew there was a reason for dropping by the Lounge. Regards to all.

Ah well, many thanks for trying. ‘Fraid the manual is a bit sparse on the non-RAID setup. I thought it was meant to be as simple as plugging it in. If I crack it I’ll post the solution (or my oversight) here.
Thanks to you all.

Kaplin B
Yep, tried tying the 10 Gb as slave but not recognised. Maybe mistakenly, I installed an IDE controller containing its own bios to get around the onboard bios limitation on HDD size. (See http://www.spcug.org/reviews/bl0107.htm%5B/url%5D and other such sites/forums).Can’t even get as far as setting Raid0.
There are no settings in the bios (or I don’t understand which ones) to switch over to the card’s bios. Have even disabled bios detection of HHDs with the same negative result – drives not seen.

Apologies to you all ….I haven’t explained very well.
My bios won’t accept a HDD above 37Gb, so I’m running the 60Gb drive as a 32Gb master (the drive has jumper settings to allow this) because at least then I’ve got a working OS to play with (XP Pro). If I then attach my 10Gb HDD (in any permutation) the board’s bios (I assume) doesn’t see it and the Sil 0680’s own bios isn’t getting around that. The card is supposed to overcome such bios limitations and that’s why I bought it.
As for the SCSI setting; I read somewhere that if I pointed the board bios to the card by using the SCSI as boot then everything would be solved. It isn’t, and it wasn’t when the boot order was the normal C – and there’s only the usual settings in the list anyway.
In reply to your question, KaplinB, I don’t hook up the CDROm to the Controller, it runs from the board’s Secondary IDE as master.
At least I can save money on a ticket to Wit’s End, eh?

The 60 Gb HD is jumpered down to 32 Gb (the bios limitation) set to master to run off the board’s IDE1, with a 10 Gb HD (unrecognised) set to slave hooked up to Primary on the Sil 0680. I’ve tried switching them to the Controller as Primary master/slave; Primary master, Secondary slave; even the full combo of masters on Primary/Secondary, then slaves on Primary/Secondary. If I boot into them from the CDROM doing a fresh install then Windows (and Debian (2.4 kernel) – see my desperation!) sees the lot. But when I change the bios order to boot from SCSI … they’re gone. BTW I have the latest drivers (v. 1.2.26.0). Phew, eh?

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If there aren’t too many you can try mounting them in your PC and running Everest. It’ll give you the manufacturers name and IDs so that you can search for the drivers.
Download the free version of Everest from:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.html%5B/url%5D

A word of caution about drivers. If they ain’t in your OS try, in the first instance, to get them from the manufacturer and only google as a very last resort.

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Having been plagued by rogue Acrobat toolbars in all my Office apps I finally found a way of disabling them without a complete uninstall and a custom reinstall of Acrobat. As the man says in the link below … just go to Add or Remove Programmes and custom uninstall the offending toolbars from there. The piece also explains how to hack the registry if your disk has gone walkabout. Even without them you can still create your PDF by printing to the distiller.

http://www.slipstick.com/problems/acrobat.htm%5B/url%5D

Take a look at the Treo 600. I’ve just upgraded from a Palm m105 which synchronised seamlessly with Outlook including email. The Treo’s bundled software makes it a doddle and has improved functionality especially if you download the free updater from the Palm site (http://www.palmone.com/us/support/downloads/). There’s also a utility Beyond Contacts by DataViz which allows fuller Outlook field transfer and their excellent Documents to Go.
And yes, I know how long ago you posted … just thought others might like the info.