| bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr said:
| > And that is very strange, the pciide driver said the secondary channel
| > was disabled, so it should not show up here. Could you check in your
| > BIOS if the secondary channel is enabled, and if not enable it ? 
| 
| I've got a similar chipset, and the secondary channel is
| disabled too for me. I didn't care up to now because there
| are no devices connected, so the BIOS might really have
| disabled it.
| Just became curious and had a look at the documentation.
| There is a bug in the code which might cause this behaviour as well.

I doubt it is a lot of use, but I had the same sort of event happen on
a 440FX based system with "Intel 82371SB PCI-to-ISA Bridge (PIIX3) etc."
and I was installing an original Win/95 release onto the box. The secondary
channel vanished (and the CD-ROM attached to it!).  After getting some help
it was explained to me that there is a bug in the original Win/95 that
causes it to disable to secondary channel in the BIOS (because it cannot
recognize the chip-set I think). I had to go to the "erase NVRAM" method
to recover the secondary channel (because the Dell box didn't let you
re-enable it via the BIOS SetUp screen).  Win/95 needed a patch or upgrade
to not cause this lossage on every boot.

-- Ken