hargle
Veteran Member
I tried again with the larger Quantum Fireball SE (4GB) and it almost works. I tried the old "FDISK /MBR" trick thinking that might help but no luck. I suspect there is a BIOS problem with the older pre-8GB drives as Hargle said earlier.
Yep. I'm working on a new generation of the BIOS code, much more organized and about 99% of the original acculogic code is now gone. (so I took their name off the sign-on text).
I've got my new code fdisking, formatting, and booting drives properly, and the door is now open to get the eINT13 support working, so that will come up shortly.
I wouldn't even bother testing with anything less than 8.4 gig at the moment, at least not until my new code base comes online. I've got some hard coded >8.4G values in my CHS->LBA conversion routine that may be causing you some troubles.
My only hold up is that I don't have any drives in my stockpile that are smaller than 8.4 gig, so I've got nothing to test with! I'll grab a couple from work this week.
PS, I do not own any CF components and the controller was designed for IDE hard drives. However, that does not mean IDE to CF adapters *won't* work with the controller.
I have an IDE->CF adapter, and a couple CF cards, so I can test some of that on my end too. I will also be testing CD-ROM support (at least identification) when I get a moment as well.