With the XT-IDE card in, the computer boots to the XT Universal BIOS but won't boot correctly from the floppy drive. If I boot FreeDOS, it shows "FreeDOS", sometimes twice, then hangs with floppy activity afterward. If I boot DOS 6.22, it displays a small amount of text saying it's booting DOS, then the same thing happens.
Computer: IBM XT 286 / 5162
Card: XT-IDE rev4
Floppy drive: 1.44MB 3.5" and 1.2M 5.25"
Floppy controller: original IBM card with default jumpers
Hard drives tried: four normal (not solid state) IDE drives of various vintages (from mid 90's to late 2000's)
BIOS's tried: original, AMI, Award
I tried compatibility mode and fast mode. Neither make it work.
I can sometimes boot to DOS 3, but only with the non-original BIOS.
Under no circumstances does it detect an IDE drive plugged into the card. If I put it in compatibility mode, it sometimes hangs while detecting the drive for some drives and not others.
If I take the card out of the computer, the computer boots from the floppy drive just fine and everything works perfectly.
I tried several revisions of XT-IDE Universal BIOS ranging in age and none of them made a difference, but all seemed to work correctly insofar as they boot to either a menu or straight to detecting the drives.
What else might I try to get this thing working? Are there diagnostic steps I should take?
Computer: IBM XT 286 / 5162
Card: XT-IDE rev4
Floppy drive: 1.44MB 3.5" and 1.2M 5.25"
Floppy controller: original IBM card with default jumpers
Hard drives tried: four normal (not solid state) IDE drives of various vintages (from mid 90's to late 2000's)
BIOS's tried: original, AMI, Award
I tried compatibility mode and fast mode. Neither make it work.
I can sometimes boot to DOS 3, but only with the non-original BIOS.
Under no circumstances does it detect an IDE drive plugged into the card. If I put it in compatibility mode, it sometimes hangs while detecting the drive for some drives and not others.
If I take the card out of the computer, the computer boots from the floppy drive just fine and everything works perfectly.
I tried several revisions of XT-IDE Universal BIOS ranging in age and none of them made a difference, but all seemed to work correctly insofar as they boot to either a menu or straight to detecting the drives.
What else might I try to get this thing working? Are there diagnostic steps I should take?