soyburger
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Hello all. I'm trying to set up a compact flash on an IBM 5170. I've switched the original BIOS chips for Quadtel and I'm using a Seagate Hard Drive and floppy controller. I have a CF card that I already got working and I can read it by booting to the floppy and reading the C drive. I think my issues can be summarized here:
I don't know the correct "Hard Drive" settings in Bios to address a 128mb Compact Flash card.
I can get it to boot if I use an 8-bit XTIDE card, but then the CF is only using 8 bit bus and not the 16 bit bus. (If it's not too much of a performance hit then this is the solution I'll go with)
If I plug the CF into the Seagate controller the XTIDE bios can't see it and it won't boot to the drive.
I don't know if I need to use both the XTIDE universal bios or if I can get the proper settings to just use the Quadtel Bios and save myself a slot.
Any help would be greatly appreciated or if this has already been addressed pointing me to the proper thread would be appreciated. Thanks again.
I don't know the correct "Hard Drive" settings in Bios to address a 128mb Compact Flash card.
I can get it to boot if I use an 8-bit XTIDE card, but then the CF is only using 8 bit bus and not the 16 bit bus. (If it's not too much of a performance hit then this is the solution I'll go with)
If I plug the CF into the Seagate controller the XTIDE bios can't see it and it won't boot to the drive.
I don't know if I need to use both the XTIDE universal bios or if I can get the proper settings to just use the Quadtel Bios and save myself a slot.
Any help would be greatly appreciated or if this has already been addressed pointing me to the proper thread would be appreciated. Thanks again.