bugman2112
Experienced Member
I have some questions regarding setting up my recently acquired IBM.
I have an early 5170 with the piggy back RAM.
I have a rev 1 , XTIDE board with v.10 BIOS
I have a 3rd party, 16 bit, IDE / FDD controller (from Jameco).
I have a western digital 6.4G hard drive that I am trying to get to work.
With the XTIDE, no problem. It boots just fine from the menu.
I am curious why I cant get the 6.4G hard drive to work with the XTIDE removed, using the IDE controller.
I can access the drive via DOS 5.0, partition with FDISK, and even format and transfer system /s. It just wont boot. I hear the drive running, but it gets no further.
This motherboard has the AMI BIOS, and I use the custom setting and set a small size that DOS can use 1024/16/63.
Any thoughts on what is going on here? The controller has a 3.5 drive, and a 5.25 drive attached, both of which work fine.
I have an early 5170 with the piggy back RAM.
I have a rev 1 , XTIDE board with v.10 BIOS
I have a 3rd party, 16 bit, IDE / FDD controller (from Jameco).
I have a western digital 6.4G hard drive that I am trying to get to work.
With the XTIDE, no problem. It boots just fine from the menu.
I am curious why I cant get the 6.4G hard drive to work with the XTIDE removed, using the IDE controller.
I can access the drive via DOS 5.0, partition with FDISK, and even format and transfer system /s. It just wont boot. I hear the drive running, but it gets no further.
This motherboard has the AMI BIOS, and I use the custom setting and set a small size that DOS can use 1024/16/63.
Any thoughts on what is going on here? The controller has a 3.5 drive, and a 5.25 drive attached, both of which work fine.