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On eBay I found for less money this controller. https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/37831/WD1003-WA2-Hard-Drive-Controller/ What is your opinion? According to this website an AT mainboard should be supported. maybe better as my current ( I think an XT controller ) controller is compatible...

Yes it was working. The seller demonstrated it before I bought it. No nothing Same with debug. The whole content seems to be empty with FF

Not at all. I don’t geht any of these error in in BIOS C and D drive are set to „not installed“

The only thing what I could do is setting C and D drive to „not installed“ But there is no option regarding primary / secondary

Unfortunately I have a minimalism BIOS. I could disable (not installed) both floopy drive and set the C Drive to not installed but how should I configure then the D drive?

There are no other cards present in the Isa slot since I have just one. I am going to use the IBM 6135984 MFM controller card. Regarding motherboard I have no idea. I think it’s type AT Here few fotos of drive and card as also mainboard

here some additional screenshots out from diagnostic tools like "SYSINFO" and "CHECKIT"

Hi all, I think I am running into an IRQ conflict with my ST-412 MFM Disk and Card. What I see out from some manuals, the ST-412 card assigns IRQ5. (https://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2016/05/working-with-st-506-interface-mfm-hard.html) See ST505 Chapter, 3rd paragraph. The IBM PC and XT...

After installing the external XT-IDE card all my issue were gone SD2IDE card CF2IDE card External spinning HDD Thx for all your support 😊

Would you recommend using one of this XT-IDE Cards which I plug into my motherboard and connect on the XTIDE Card the CF adapter instead of removing original bios IC and replacing it with a new one incl the XTIDE firmware on it. In case of an HDD controller issue on my mainboard it would fail as...

I will give that recommendation a try. from a friend I am getting this drive. Hope the size is fine as well The bios I am going to burn on a EPROM

I don’t have such a card ☹️ This could be a possible issue if the next CF2IDE adapter I bought now on Amazon will also not work. StarTech.com 3,5 Zoll Laufwerksschacht IDE auf CF SSD Kartenleser - CompactFlash - Solid State Drive https://amzn.eu/d/9ilhgwS

it is working on my modern machine! currently I am facing issues that the CF2IDE (CompactFlash!!) is not beeing detected properly :-(

There is definitely power. 5V and 12v I could try to buy a different adapter. Any suggestions ?

ok I boght one ot these CF2IDE Adapter with an 512MB CF card but during booting I am getting error "HDD controller failure" jumpers are set to default snd the cf card is mounted on the side where the jumpers are

There is no possibility to configure any bit based transfer mode on the adapter I bought it over Amazon - SD35VCO Which CF adapter and CF card would you recommend.

I tried 2 adapters and a couple of SD Cards I dont have one - maybe I am going to buy a cheap old IDE Drive where CHS are paramters are on the label of the drive - hopefully it will work I dont have an external network card - but I have an EPROM Programmer - so basically I could burn a newer...

Yes I did and it is working well - booting freedos on my modern mainboard without problems. Here are my results

I used STB but it fails I am getting error reading disk

Yes please that would nice Not yet but good idea - will do that tomorrow