gerrydoire
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In case anyone has come up with a workable solution to this:
Here is my dilema:
I can connect a micro drive or regular ide hd to it and get 500ish megs as expected. They work and boot and all that normal stuff.
What I would like to do is use CF cards, easier to manage and handle than micro hard drives.
When I tried going that route, everything works, except it wont boot from a CF card, when still connected and leave a boot floppy in, it will boot the floppy and i can still go to C:/ on the CF card and everything there looks normal.
I did a formatted the CF card as a normal HD and sys fuction, but my IBM XT refuses to boot from it other than everything else working normally.
So I tried another configuration, I connected the mico drive to the card as the master, and connected the CF card contraption as the slave, the microdrive boots and works, at boot up u see both hds showing up, but fdisk refuses to see the 2nd hd.
You would think if the Acculogic sees a 16 bit physical hd and works, it would see a CF card as being no difference, obviously there is a difference someplace.
If anyone has any ideas on this...
Here is my dilema:
I can connect a micro drive or regular ide hd to it and get 500ish megs as expected. They work and boot and all that normal stuff.
What I would like to do is use CF cards, easier to manage and handle than micro hard drives.
When I tried going that route, everything works, except it wont boot from a CF card, when still connected and leave a boot floppy in, it will boot the floppy and i can still go to C:/ on the CF card and everything there looks normal.
I did a formatted the CF card as a normal HD and sys fuction, but my IBM XT refuses to boot from it other than everything else working normally.
So I tried another configuration, I connected the mico drive to the card as the master, and connected the CF card contraption as the slave, the microdrive boots and works, at boot up u see both hds showing up, but fdisk refuses to see the 2nd hd.
You would think if the Acculogic sees a 16 bit physical hd and works, it would see a CF card as being no difference, obviously there is a difference someplace.
If anyone has any ideas on this...