alecv
Experienced Member
Malc What is controller/chipset/bios used at your Filecard ?
This isnt right:
RP1, RP2 10K x 9 SIP resistors 266-10K-RC
That needs to be a 10K bussed type 10 leg sip resistor. You wrote 9 leg. Perhaps a 9 leg should also work i dont know.
I ordered them from Bourns with part nr 4610x-101-103 100pcs.
.....I've got some MFM drives in the shed and later i will sort through them but i doubt if any of them are working now, I remember a couple of them worked 'ish' but they have been in there a long time.
Personally, I'm not willing to ship assembled cards with the 2 series BIOS since they're still marked "beta" -- if the author is still calling it beta, that makes it not ready for general use, in my mind. Don't like it? Remove the beta designation
Secondly, there's no preconfigured image that fits in 8K with a boot menu. While I and presumably other hobbyists can certainly build our own with the provided source + makefile, I bet there are a lot of people who can't or don't want to try and build their own BIOS image to get it down to 8K. Perhaps make an 8K version with boot menu and no serial disk/floppy support officially available?
Third, it's actually kind of hard to figure out what you're supposed to be downloading and/or running w.r.t. the 2.0 XUB. A Google search brings up the Lo-Tech Wiki, then the "official" site (xtideuniversalbios.org) a bit lower down. Of course, the Lo-Tech Wiki still references the Google Code site. The downloads are non-obvious on xtideuniversalbios.org and the source browser seems like an early 2000's CGI for browsing SVN. Considering the Google Code site has handy "Export to GitHub" buttons all over the place, they may be trying to tell you something I'm a programmer and hardware engineer for my day-job and I find it difficult to navigate, so I'm betting other people do too.
Again, I think two big, relatively painless steps in getting people using the 2.x XUB would be to (1) remove the "beta" label if the devs really feel it's ready and (2) start providing 8K builds that will "just work" with the boot menu and whatnot. The rev 3 boards and Lo-Tech boards both left the serial port off, so removing serial disk/floppy support, adding the boot menu, and building that as another binary output in the release process shouldn't cause too much headache/confusion for the users.
%define ROM_VERSION_STRING "v2.0.0",BETA,"3+ (",__DATE__,")",NULL
%define ROM_VERSION_STRING "rXXX"," (",__DATE__,")",NULL
#define ROM_VERSION_STRING "v2.0.0" BETA "3 (" __DATE__ ")"
#define ROM_VERSION_STRING "rXXX (" __DATE__ ")"
-=XTIDE Universal BIOS (XT)=- @ D000h
r592 (2016-07-18)
Released under GNU GPL v2
-=XTIDE Universal BIOS (XT)=- @ D000h
Rev 592 (2016-07-18)
Released under GNU GPL v2
-=XTIDE Universal BIOS (XT)=- @ D000h
Build r592 (2016-07-18)
Released under GNU GPL v2
<snip> I was planning on using it in my Tandy 1000 as the power supply won't run a 5.25" HDD.
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Bobby.
What does FDISK tell you?
It ran fine from the HD
I've had a strange issue with my new XT-IDE - It works fine on most HDD's, as well as my 1GB DOM... but there's one drive that it doesn't like!
There are timing issues in the MUX design which limit device compatibility.