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Thanks for the great info and resource site! I will give this a shot. Been away for a bit, but am now back and will reinstall it in my...

Going to try and disable the BIOS. If that doesn't work, I'm at a loss since it can operate without the BIOS. My only thought is I...

I have an ATI 8514/Ultra dual bus video card (Microchannel and ISA). I did something stupid years back and now I need to fix it. I...

Don't know if this is your issue, but I had two of these drives that wouldn't spin up, so I started with the drive board on the back. I...

The first HD I got was in an IBM 50Z and was a whole 30MB. If I knew more about how I trapped myself into a corner buying a PS/2...

Standard DOS format won't accomplish the same? If it's an alignment issue, wouldn't it have issues reading and writing a factory...

So many possibilities! I tested the cable and controller by replacing the drive with a Teac FD-55GFR and it works for both disk types...

I spoke too soon. It's been almost 3 days and the time and date have stuck, as well as the configuration. Not sure how long the cell...

Right now I have a hardcard in the AT clone, but when it dies, I will go the XT-IDE route like I did on my 5150. My need is to...

Well I realized I skipped a step in testing. I was so busy trying to figure out why it fails with reading 360s I never bothered to test...

The most involved repair I did was to a pair of IBM drives from a 5150. Had to get a third probe for my oscilloscope to connect to the...

You think this is maintenance? Wait till you have to replace bearings in an 8 inch drive :eek:

I have this controller running my floppy drives as it allows 1.44, but never used the IDE on it. I was thinking of trying out some...

This drive was working fine a day ago. I used it to boot 360K DOS disk to install a Hardcard. I even loaded files to the newly...

It's back to booting, but I can't say what worked. I've given up trying the WD controller as it seems to be the cause. I'm think that...