Also got some strange issues. First one: Wanted to connect an IDE-ZIP250 to a Soyo 4SAW-486-mainboard (onboard IDE) as secondary slave with a CD-Rom as master. Primary single drive is a CF-IDE-adapter. Problem is, that Iomega Guest detects the ZIP-Drive but uses the same drive-letter as the CD-Drive …

Hi, you should be able to find out the pinout by yourself. PCs of this era usually need +5V, +12V, -5V and -12V. All these voltages are found on the ISA-bus ( pinout ). To find out the pinout do a simple continuity check between power-supply connector and the power pins on ISA-bus. With best regards …

Hi, i also just got one of these boards. Mine has an Intel DX4-100 in its socket. I also didn't find any information useful information on this board. Even Mitac itself does not have any information on it. Yes, I asked via contact form on their website. Currently there is one MSC-242 NOS with manual …

Hi, sory for late answer. Thanks for your tips. Unfortunatly this drive does not have its stepper motor easily accessible from the outside. But i have at least a partial success in getting this 31 years old bugger (mfg date January 1989) to get detected and somewhat working. After some power cycles …

Hi, I have recently aquired a 286 lunchbox-computer (integrated 640x200-monocrome display) whose MFM-hardrive has some serious problems. The drive is an Microscience HH-1090. It is connected to a wd1003-wa2 full length 16bit MFM-HDD and FDD-controller. 286-board is a PAT 7.2. (printed on PCB) …