scruit wrote on 2023-01-02, 12:21:

I'm past "trying things until it works" - now I want to understand why it's not working at the logic level.

this threat will interest you: SATA HARD Disk in 286/386 Mobo: Is it possible? good stuff is on second page
if you really want to understand IDE I highly recommend all the os2museum links I put there

rasz_pl wrote on 2023-01-02, 23:34:

scruit wrote on 2023-01-02, 12:21:

I'm past "trying things until it works" - now I want to understand why it's not working at the logic level.

this threat will interest you: SATA HARD Disk in 286/386 Mobo: Is it possible? good stuff is on second page
if you really want to understand IDE I highly recommend all the os2museum links I put there

A little light bedtime reading. Thank you!