Couple of notes I've seen
I 1st set the system up using a cheap Goldstar IDE/Floppy 16 bit card. I select a TYPE 1 drive and used a disk manager program. I fdisked the drive as 3 2GB drives and formated the three drives. It was a 40GB Maxtor IDE drive that was used. I installed ms 6.22
I also tested a CD-ROM writter installed as drive F: and it read old CDR's without a problem.
I then installed a 1.44mb floppy as a 2nd floppy.
A SB CT 1350, VGA card, IBM serial/printer card and last a Megalith plus memory card w/8megs onboard was installed as 7megs EXT and 1MB EMS
I then pull the IDE/floppy card, drive and CD-ROM and installed a WREN II 56mb using an Everex EV-332 controller that came with the XT286. The floppies were attach to that controller. The Wren was installed as a TYPE 12 drive and was LLF'd FDISKed to two 25 meg drives and formatted. MS 6.22 installed.
Now on both set ups I installed:
MS Flight Simulator 4.0 and ran fine. Joystick and mouse worked.
Red Baron the original WW I flight simulator, again both joystick, mouse, and sound worked perfect.
Now the issue. On both setups I was unable to install WIN 3.1. It failed on both setups at almost the same point. The system is NOT tring to read or copy when it fails. It just locks up and needs to be shut off. Ctrl-Alt-DEl does not do anything. This happens when it should start to access the 3rd floppy but no access light just a frozen screen.
I have installed Win31 on two other 5170's with these exact cards and setup before without issue. Could this be a XT286 bios issue?
Other issue, The LED HD activity light stays on except before dos starts to load. It then never goes off. There seems to be no jumper that controls this. I attached an LED to the controller card and it operates as it should. Is this an issue? I see other controller cards have a jumper to control latched and none latch LED on the drive.
I'd had this drive in an XT using a WD-GEN F300 dynamically LLF to its correct numbers and the LED worked proper.
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