Megatron-uk
Experienced Member
Hi all,
I'm hoping to get larger disk access via XTIDE Universal BIOS on my no-name 286 system - I've tried Ontrack Drive Manager and while it detects, partitions and formats my drive to full capacity, I cannot boot anything via the Ontrack 'Insert a floppy and press space to boot an OS' screen.
So, I would like to run the replacement BIOS from either a network or SCSI card that I already own, but was wondering if anyone else had used the same cards to host the XTIDE BIOS?
The cards I've got access to are:
3Com 3C509B
Realtek 8029AS
Adaptec AHA-1542CP
The Adaptec has a 27256 SCSI BIOS chip - but the other two cards don't have anything fitted. I currently have a number of blank 27c128 and 27c256 eproms available that I can program. But is there anything special I need to do with the 8kb AT version of the XTIDE BIOS to get it to run in any of the above cards with either the 16 or 32kb chips I have available?
Cheers,
John
I'm hoping to get larger disk access via XTIDE Universal BIOS on my no-name 286 system - I've tried Ontrack Drive Manager and while it detects, partitions and formats my drive to full capacity, I cannot boot anything via the Ontrack 'Insert a floppy and press space to boot an OS' screen.
So, I would like to run the replacement BIOS from either a network or SCSI card that I already own, but was wondering if anyone else had used the same cards to host the XTIDE BIOS?
The cards I've got access to are:
3Com 3C509B
Realtek 8029AS
Adaptec AHA-1542CP
The Adaptec has a 27256 SCSI BIOS chip - but the other two cards don't have anything fitted. I currently have a number of blank 27c128 and 27c256 eproms available that I can program. But is there anything special I need to do with the 8kb AT version of the XTIDE BIOS to get it to run in any of the above cards with either the 16 or 32kb chips I have available?
Cheers,
John