EddieDX4
Veteran Member
I am attempting to install an 813mb WD drive in my TL/2, by use of an XT-IDE. The controller detects the drive fine (lists it in the bootm options), but whenever it attempts to boot it fails with an Error 01h (the controller reports this error).
I have already configured my TL/2 to boot from DISK and MSDOS (setuptl2.com from the original MS-DOS/GW-BASIC boot disk).
If I boot from floppy (MS-DOS 5.0) and try to go into FDISK, it errors out as well (can't remember the exact message, but it was a generic one liner "Error reading drive" or something along those lines)...
This is a drive I was using on a 386 machine, and it has DOS 6.0 in it. It works fine on that machine.
What am I doing wrong? The XT-IDE has all default settings (and, as far as I can tell, the default memory addresses do not conflict with the TL/2's built in controller, etc...)
I've tried moving the HD IRQ jumper on the TL/2 from IRQ5 to IRQ2, just in case, but I get the same result.
I searched the XT-IDE tech support thread but the darn thing is too many pages and I eventually became exhausted (we need a dedicated forum for XT-IDE support...a single thread is ridiculous).
Anyone else using an XT-IDE on a TL series 1000?
I have already configured my TL/2 to boot from DISK and MSDOS (setuptl2.com from the original MS-DOS/GW-BASIC boot disk).
If I boot from floppy (MS-DOS 5.0) and try to go into FDISK, it errors out as well (can't remember the exact message, but it was a generic one liner "Error reading drive" or something along those lines)...
This is a drive I was using on a 386 machine, and it has DOS 6.0 in it. It works fine on that machine.
What am I doing wrong? The XT-IDE has all default settings (and, as far as I can tell, the default memory addresses do not conflict with the TL/2's built in controller, etc...)
I've tried moving the HD IRQ jumper on the TL/2 from IRQ5 to IRQ2, just in case, but I get the same result.
I searched the XT-IDE tech support thread but the darn thing is too many pages and I eventually became exhausted (we need a dedicated forum for XT-IDE support...a single thread is ridiculous).
Anyone else using an XT-IDE on a TL series 1000?