RadRacer203
Veteran Member
Since my other projects are now on hold while I find parts, I decided to start on something else. I've been wanting to put an IDE hard drive (maybe a CF card later) in my Amstrad PC1512 so I can hide it inside the case and not take up one of the 2 5.25" bays on the front. I have an NEL 8 bit isa IDE controller (shown) and an old 2gb or so Seagate IDE drive out of some kind of early Windows machine. I also have an XTIDE Universal bios rom chip labelled as revision 580 which I could swap in. The issue I am having is that the universal bios will not recognize the hard drive at all, although it does post and display the text pictured below. With the original chip in the card, it does detect the hard drive, albeit incorrectly, but I get the error message shown below stating that the "hard disk parameter table scratched".