I have used an XT-IDE on my IBM 5150 with sucess but tried to make it work on my 5170 but that seems to be more difficult. I have replaced the BIOS and tried both the AMI and AWARD versions, but it doesn't work. Tried different CF cards but no success. When I start the computer it freezes for a minute or so before continuing and saying something is wrong with the hard drive. After that it start and I can select from the XT-IDE menu to boot from disk. I have been able to format C: so that it was possible to access it from DOS, but it won't boot from it.
I tried different programs, like wipedisk and fdisk with no sucess. FDISK /MBR isn't doing anything (DOS 5.0). It just return a message that the "Boot rom code wasn't updated"
I still have the normal floppy/hardrive ISA card installed. Is that interfering? I tried to remove it but it didn't try to boot from HD that time either (just reported that it couldn't find any floppy drives).
So maybe it's not possible to make this work?
I also have a PS/2 model 30 286 computer I had liked to try this in (can't boot it since floppy drive is dead), but I guess it won't work here either.
I tried different programs, like wipedisk and fdisk with no sucess. FDISK /MBR isn't doing anything (DOS 5.0). It just return a message that the "Boot rom code wasn't updated"
I still have the normal floppy/hardrive ISA card installed. Is that interfering? I tried to remove it but it didn't try to boot from HD that time either (just reported that it couldn't find any floppy drives).
So maybe it's not possible to make this work?
I also have a PS/2 model 30 286 computer I had liked to try this in (can't boot it since floppy drive is dead), but I guess it won't work here either.