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On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:39 PM, V A <[email protected]> wrote: > Was the original hard drive the boot device? If so, can you make the new > drive bootable and see if it boots from it? I'm wondering if the BIOS needs > to boot from the hard drive if it finds one. > > HTH. > > > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 3:48 AM, brucehvn <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A client of a company I work for gave us an old AST 286 machine (512K >> ram) that they have been using for many years, but the old original >> hard drive had finally started giving out. It was an old MFM or RLL >> drive. >> >> I decided the best course of action was to remove the existing fixed >> disk controller card and replace it with an IDE controller and one of >> many old IDE 1 to 5 GB hard drives I have. >> >> I purchased a Promise EIDEMax II IDE controller card from eBay, brand >> new in the box. At first when installing it into the 286, it acted as >> if the card was not recognized at all. There was no sign of the >> card's bios at boot time and running their plug and play configuration >> utility would just hang as if it could not find the card. I put the >> card in a different machine and was able to run the PNPUTIL program to >> disable PNP support and configure the card with standard parameters as >> described in the manual. >> >> When I put the card back in the 286, it was recognized, the bios >> screen comes up, I can even go in the card's bios and change settings >> as necessary. Everything seems to be happy. However, once I connect >> any IDE drive to the controller, it hangs at boot at the point it >> should be displaying the list of detected drives. According to the >> manual, it should display the list of drives, then the message "BIOS >> installed successfully" and then continue to boot. If I disconnect >> the drive cable, then it boots up from a floppy with no problem. I've >> tried 4 different hard drives ranging from 1 to 4.6 GB, Fujitsu, >> Quantum, and Seagate brands, but no luck. All the drives have been >> tested and definitely work in another machine. I'm using DOS 6.0 to >> boot, but at the point of the hang, nothing has been loaded yet from >> the floppy drive. I've tried using a different IDE cable as well, >> just in case. >> >> I've checked DOS msd.exe for memory/irq conflicts, etc, but can see >> nothing unusual. The card's BIOS is in an area that is unused (D000- >> DBFF), and I've set the primary port on the card to each of the 4 >> settings of Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, and Quad, which basically >> switches the IRQs and Ports among various choices, but no change. The >> computer only has a video card, and memory card. The floppy >> controller is on the MB. Oh, and also I've tried messing with the >> computer's BIOS settings for the fixed disk. Normally I have it set >> to none, but have tried a few different disk types, but it doesn't >> seem to make a difference. >> >> Anyway, I'm baffled. Everything appears to be in order and this setup >> seems like it should be working according to the manual for the >> Promise card. These drives seem like they are from the right era for >> this card. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Computer Tech Support" group. >> To post to this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<computer-tech-support%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/computer-tech-support?hl=en. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Computer Tech Support" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<computer-tech-support%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/computer-tech-support?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Computer Tech Support" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/computer-tech-support?hl=en.
