Recent content by maxtherabbit

Well I feel much better about my fleet of 15 now

Emulation? Disgusting

The ROM is irrelevant, the 5170 board is physically wired that way. You can relocate the adaptec boot rom with either jumpers or dip switches depending on the exact card model. I'd suggest moving it to C800

Man everytime one of these comes out I kick myself for only having MDA/EGA/herc cards in my IBMs

The original 5170 AT had the E segment of UMA hardwired to ROM sockets on the motherboard, as such many clone boards did not make this segment addressable on the ISA bus. That may be your issue. I'd suggest trying to move whatever ROM is currently at DC00 to the C segment after the video ROM.

I'd try the one plasma suggested first, since it's only 2 straps to change from what you already did

I believe Mr. Kiselev wrote an XT BIOS ROM you could try

yeah that's how it is

What's the main IC on the ETHER-8+

Yeah I mean I've seen the pinout, I've just never physically seen a device with those pins actually connected to anything

Were there ever any devices that used more than what the DE-9 RS-232 pinout offers?

I'd also like to know just out of curiosity

Is that actually a limitation of the drive firmware or is the CHS to LBA conversion still done in software?

This effort to equip a system with an absurd number of floppy drives is close to my heart

Let the first guy have it. I was only asking for seconds if that fell though