Casper Gielen wrote:
> ... added a second harddisk to an old 386 and ...
> Whenever I power-on ... starts POSTing, checks
> memory, displays WAIT ... stops. If I press Reset
> it starts over and works perfectly and keeps working
> until it's powered off.
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Casper, I have had this same problem with other
peripherals (floppy disks, etc.) when mixing hardware
from different generations.
As nearly as I can tell, there are timing issues which
occur only during the power up cycle. If a reset is
performed, the mystery handshake succeeds.
I don't know whether it's that the BIOS is too slow
or too fast, or the peripheral gizmo responds too
quickly or slowly, but it worked, so I didn't complain.
Sorry I can't say more than "yup, that happens."
~~Garry
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