Andrettigto
Experienced Member
Have a 5150 Rev.A with a Monotech DeluxeFloppy controller that's based on the Sergey's Project. I was attracted to it because of its physical size and not its additional hardware coverage since I'm only using 5 1/4" DD and 3 1/2" DD drives. Currently I have it configured with drive A as the 5 1/4" since I have numerous old boot games.
The issue I'm having is after POST, there's a long delay (over 35 sec.) before timeout on an empty 5 1/4" drive, finally prompting for retry/fail input. Only then can I finally continue with XT-IDE booting to my CF or hard drive. With the standard IBM floppy controller, timeout only takes a few seconds.
Wondering if anyone can shed some light on this issue for me. I should note that with DeluxeFloppy configured to use the 3 1/2" as drive A, timeout is similar to the standard IBM controller occuring in less than 2 seconds.
The issue I'm having is after POST, there's a long delay (over 35 sec.) before timeout on an empty 5 1/4" drive, finally prompting for retry/fail input. Only then can I finally continue with XT-IDE booting to my CF or hard drive. With the standard IBM floppy controller, timeout only takes a few seconds.
Wondering if anyone can shed some light on this issue for me. I should note that with DeluxeFloppy configured to use the 3 1/2" as drive A, timeout is similar to the standard IBM controller occuring in less than 2 seconds.