I'm in the process of retiring the Quantum LP10-5 in my Compaq Portable II and am looking to replace it with an XT-CF. I've been able to create a new CF card in another DOS machine by putting the Quantum in the 486 and letting boot from the it. A slave drive is the 486 that I was able to transfer all the files to.
I removed the drives and put the 486 back to normal with an IDE to CF adapter and as able to format new CF as a boot drive with all the original Quantum files.
Now the challenge....
I need to get the Portable II to accept a brand new XT-CF so I can use that as the boot drive and remove the Quantum. No luck as of yet. This Portable II has a multiufunction card that has the IDE controller, Floppy Controller, Serial and Parallel ports. I tried disabling the IDE controller I tried disabling the IDE controller via the dip switch on the board and that didn't work.
I also ran up the setup program for the PII and set hard drives to not installed. Still no luck.
I know AT class machines like the PII may have slightly different I/O settings and I'm sure the XT-CF isn't set to the right I/O and ROM Addresses. I just can't find the right settings for the PII.
Any guidance will help. I've built an XT-CF in the past and have two brand new pre-built ones I'm using. One is already in a Portable I. I have the ability to erase and reprogram the Flash.
What say the resident Guru's...
I removed the drives and put the 486 back to normal with an IDE to CF adapter and as able to format new CF as a boot drive with all the original Quantum files.
Now the challenge....
I need to get the Portable II to accept a brand new XT-CF so I can use that as the boot drive and remove the Quantum. No luck as of yet. This Portable II has a multiufunction card that has the IDE controller, Floppy Controller, Serial and Parallel ports. I tried disabling the IDE controller I tried disabling the IDE controller via the dip switch on the board and that didn't work.
I also ran up the setup program for the PII and set hard drives to not installed. Still no luck.
I know AT class machines like the PII may have slightly different I/O settings and I'm sure the XT-CF isn't set to the right I/O and ROM Addresses. I just can't find the right settings for the PII.
Any guidance will help. I've built an XT-CF in the past and have two brand new pre-built ones I'm using. One is already in a Portable I. I have the ability to erase and reprogram the Flash.
What say the resident Guru's...