Shadow Lord
Veteran Member
Hello All,
I've been trying to help a friend of mine get his XT-IDE (DP ver. 2 board) up and running to boot a HDD in an IBM 8525. It is a bit difficult since he is across the country but we have made progress. However, we still cannot get the system to boot.
The card is recognized by the system, the boot menu comes up. At first we could not get it to find a HDD. However, after a bunch of trial error we were able to get the drive to be recognized. We booted w/ a DOS 6.22 disk, ran fdisk /mbr, and everything seems to have completed but after reboot the HDD will not format. Checking with fdisk shown no partition info at all.
The XT-IDE is the only card in the system, booting from floppies is fine with no issues. We also have gotten a 1h error at times. Finally, to rule out the HDD as an issue we tried to boot using the serial connection. The card is seen by the server but when we attempt to boot again we get a 1h error.
Config info as follows:
ide_xt.bin: v2.0.0B3 (2013-03-02)
Full Operating Mode: No
IDE Controllers: 1
Power Management: Disabled
Device Type: XTIDE r1
Base Address: 300h
Control Block: 308h
Master & Slave Settings:
Block Mode Transfers: Yes
CHS Translation: Auto
Internal Write Cache: Disabled
User Specified CHS/LBA: No
Boot Settings:
Display Mode: Default
Number of Floppy Dr.: Auto
Scan for Serial Drives: No
Default Boot Drive: 80h
The BIOS chip is an amtel http://www.atmel.com/images/doc0270.pdf
EEPROM type: 2864
SDP: Enable
Page Size: 1 byte
EEPROM Address: D000h
Generate Checksum byte: Yes
At this point I am stumped. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
I've been trying to help a friend of mine get his XT-IDE (DP ver. 2 board) up and running to boot a HDD in an IBM 8525. It is a bit difficult since he is across the country but we have made progress. However, we still cannot get the system to boot.
The card is recognized by the system, the boot menu comes up. At first we could not get it to find a HDD. However, after a bunch of trial error we were able to get the drive to be recognized. We booted w/ a DOS 6.22 disk, ran fdisk /mbr, and everything seems to have completed but after reboot the HDD will not format. Checking with fdisk shown no partition info at all.
The XT-IDE is the only card in the system, booting from floppies is fine with no issues. We also have gotten a 1h error at times. Finally, to rule out the HDD as an issue we tried to boot using the serial connection. The card is seen by the server but when we attempt to boot again we get a 1h error.
Config info as follows:
ide_xt.bin: v2.0.0B3 (2013-03-02)
Full Operating Mode: No
IDE Controllers: 1
Power Management: Disabled
Device Type: XTIDE r1
Base Address: 300h
Control Block: 308h
Master & Slave Settings:
Block Mode Transfers: Yes
CHS Translation: Auto
Internal Write Cache: Disabled
User Specified CHS/LBA: No
Boot Settings:
Display Mode: Default
Number of Floppy Dr.: Auto
Scan for Serial Drives: No
Default Boot Drive: 80h
The BIOS chip is an amtel http://www.atmel.com/images/doc0270.pdf
EEPROM type: 2864
SDP: Enable
Page Size: 1 byte
EEPROM Address: D000h
Generate Checksum byte: Yes
At this point I am stumped. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.