clh333
Veteran Member
As noted on another thread I recently assembled one of the glitchworks' XTIDE kits. I had already purchased one pre-assembled from glitch.
Assembly was pretty straightforward and soon I came to the point of programming the EPROM. I found information on the Universal BIOS (http://www.xtideuniversalbios.org/), written by aitotat (among others?) who sometimes posts here and who deserves all kinds of accolades for such a stunning achievement.
I used the configuration utility to flash the EPROM, but not knowing any better (that's my story, anyway) I made a few mistakes: Although the intended target for the card is an XT (5160) I performed the flashing on a '586 machine because it happens to have a large collection of old software. I figured I would just copy the software over to the compact-flash Disk-On-Module card included with the XTIDE.
The flashing succeeded but because I flashed for an XT BIOS when the machine re-booted it hung loading DOS. Recognizing my mistake I tried to re-program the AT28C64B EPROM and was unsuccessful until I removed the EPROM and erased it in another (GQ-4X) programmer. I re-flashed a second time using the proper parameters and now the machine boots, albeit from the hard disk. (The controller is a Promise VLB EIDE2300).
The XTIDE BIOS recognizes the blank DOM as a master drive at 01FH, but since there is no MBR it continues on and boots from the HD. Once at the DOS C:\ prompt I tried to use FDISK to format the DOM. FDISK D: doesn't work (invalid parameter) and C: is the boot drive so I'm not going there. How can I get the system to recognize the DOM card? I have no other place to connect it to a system. The DOM card has the same pins as a standard IDE header, not like those of a CF card which I could insert into another machine and format.
Suggestions? Thanks.
-CH-
Assembly was pretty straightforward and soon I came to the point of programming the EPROM. I found information on the Universal BIOS (http://www.xtideuniversalbios.org/), written by aitotat (among others?) who sometimes posts here and who deserves all kinds of accolades for such a stunning achievement.
I used the configuration utility to flash the EPROM, but not knowing any better (that's my story, anyway) I made a few mistakes: Although the intended target for the card is an XT (5160) I performed the flashing on a '586 machine because it happens to have a large collection of old software. I figured I would just copy the software over to the compact-flash Disk-On-Module card included with the XTIDE.
The flashing succeeded but because I flashed for an XT BIOS when the machine re-booted it hung loading DOS. Recognizing my mistake I tried to re-program the AT28C64B EPROM and was unsuccessful until I removed the EPROM and erased it in another (GQ-4X) programmer. I re-flashed a second time using the proper parameters and now the machine boots, albeit from the hard disk. (The controller is a Promise VLB EIDE2300).
The XTIDE BIOS recognizes the blank DOM as a master drive at 01FH, but since there is no MBR it continues on and boots from the HD. Once at the DOS C:\ prompt I tried to use FDISK to format the DOM. FDISK D: doesn't work (invalid parameter) and C: is the boot drive so I'm not going there. How can I get the system to recognize the DOM card? I have no other place to connect it to a system. The DOM card has the same pins as a standard IDE header, not like those of a CF card which I could insert into another machine and format.
Suggestions? Thanks.
-CH-