SunDown79
Veteran Member
So first my setup; a Bitac 286 clone (looks identical to an IBM AT) which has its own BIOS and apart from that is a stock 286.
Installed is a 16-bit ISA PhoenixVGA card with no jumpers and I tried two floppy/ide controllers that both seem to work fine (Silicon Valley Computer ADP60 and a LCS-6625 card). Both of these floppy/ide controllers have a BIOS that I cant seem to turn off.
Now I tried all these combinations :
VGA + either of the floppy/IDE controllers + WD1003V-MM1
VGA + WD1003V-MM1
Just WD1003V-MM1 (to hear the seek, or how do you call it)
All did nothing, no sounds from the harddrive's (I have tried a Micropolis 1323A, Seagate ST-250R and a Seagate ST251-MLC1)
Ow and I also tried different cables.
The only difference I can see is when I jumper W3 for the secondary address, I get a controller failure message, in all other cases I get a Failure harddisk 0.
It could be ofcourse that all drives are broken but hmm, that would be truelly unlucky. The WD1003V-MM1 seems new (I have two of them).
Does the position in the machine (which ISA slot) make any difference ?
And am I right to think that I at least should hear a seek or some action from the harddrive when the system boots ? (I have that sound in my head but well, its been a while since I played with these)
Any help appreciated.
Thanks!
Stefan.
Installed is a 16-bit ISA PhoenixVGA card with no jumpers and I tried two floppy/ide controllers that both seem to work fine (Silicon Valley Computer ADP60 and a LCS-6625 card). Both of these floppy/ide controllers have a BIOS that I cant seem to turn off.
Now I tried all these combinations :
VGA + either of the floppy/IDE controllers + WD1003V-MM1
VGA + WD1003V-MM1
Just WD1003V-MM1 (to hear the seek, or how do you call it)
All did nothing, no sounds from the harddrive's (I have tried a Micropolis 1323A, Seagate ST-250R and a Seagate ST251-MLC1)
Ow and I also tried different cables.
The only difference I can see is when I jumper W3 for the secondary address, I get a controller failure message, in all other cases I get a Failure harddisk 0.
It could be ofcourse that all drives are broken but hmm, that would be truelly unlucky. The WD1003V-MM1 seems new (I have two of them).
Does the position in the machine (which ISA slot) make any difference ?
And am I right to think that I at least should hear a seek or some action from the harddrive when the system boots ? (I have that sound in my head but well, its been a while since I played with these)
Any help appreciated.
Thanks!
Stefan.
