It seems like this machine is going to fight me on everything I try to do with it. For the record, my penultimate goal would be to have a 1.4mb 3.5 floppy internal, original hard drive, and an external IBM branded 1.2mb 5.25 drive. I have a small pile of 5.25 booter games i'd like to be able to use.
A month ago, I found a business-land internal to external floppy drive adapter. It seems it was specifically designed for IBM PS/2's and is about as 'plug-and-play' as one could expect. However, no matter what I tried, it would not work. The bios will "see" the drive and label it at B: automatically, but it could not read or write any disks. I am inclined to believe that the bios is expecting a 720k 3.5 drive and refuses to acknowledge anything else.
So I gave up on that when I found a box of ide cards on ebay. The jewel in the box was a Future Domain TMC-885. http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/hard-di...p-to-seven-SCSI-devices-198.html#.Ubo_avm1G30
This card is supposed to be bootable isn't it? The bios will respond during post, but if I disconnect the on-board hard drive, it still won't boot. I can't seem to disable the onboard ide/floppy interface. The starter disk is NO help at all. It is nothing more than a glorified diagnostic disk. That said, if I boot to dos from another source, I can use the utilities I found on Adaptec's website to access the hard drive. I can low level the drive as well as basic diagnostics and everything comes back fine, however the drive isn't being reported to dos by the bios. So fdisk fails.
What am I missing here? I have to admit my knowledge of pre-286 machines would fill a business card on a good day. Any assistance would be appreciated.
A month ago, I found a business-land internal to external floppy drive adapter. It seems it was specifically designed for IBM PS/2's and is about as 'plug-and-play' as one could expect. However, no matter what I tried, it would not work. The bios will "see" the drive and label it at B: automatically, but it could not read or write any disks. I am inclined to believe that the bios is expecting a 720k 3.5 drive and refuses to acknowledge anything else.
So I gave up on that when I found a box of ide cards on ebay. The jewel in the box was a Future Domain TMC-885. http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/hard-di...p-to-seven-SCSI-devices-198.html#.Ubo_avm1G30
This card is supposed to be bootable isn't it? The bios will respond during post, but if I disconnect the on-board hard drive, it still won't boot. I can't seem to disable the onboard ide/floppy interface. The starter disk is NO help at all. It is nothing more than a glorified diagnostic disk. That said, if I boot to dos from another source, I can use the utilities I found on Adaptec's website to access the hard drive. I can low level the drive as well as basic diagnostics and everything comes back fine, however the drive isn't being reported to dos by the bios. So fdisk fails.
What am I missing here? I have to admit my knowledge of pre-286 machines would fill a business card on a good day. Any assistance would be appreciated.