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Data Tech. Corp. DTC2280; bootable?

Aeroraptor

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I recently got a really neat card in a huge box of stuff, it's a Data Technology Corporation DTC2280 ISA card. It has one IDE bus (two drives), a floppy controller, a game port (header), two serial headers (one physical port) and a physical parallel port. My question is, is this thing bootable? I don't see anything that looks directly like a ROM on it, but why would a card have a floppy controller if it's not bootable?

Here's a site with some info (mostly jumper settings) - http://www.lemmus.eu/th99/c/C-D/20396.htm

And here's a picture of mine, with the cables off - http://i30.tinypic.com/qqy0lv.jpg

If this thing was bootable, even if just off the floppy, I think it could *massively* help out my PS/2 25AT.
 
That looks like a standard AT hard/floppy controller to me. DOS will happily boot from a hard drive or floppy drive attached to it. You don't need a ROM on the card for that to happen.
Or do you mean something else by "bootable"?
 
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