First post, by LChackr
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Hi all. I am working on a new 386 build and am having some trouble. The primary storage is a 512MB Compact Flash drive using IDE adapter I've successfully used with other 386 and 486 builds in the past. Here are the details:
It's a Rectron PEAK/DM 386 DX board. CHIPS PEAK/DM BIOS 2.1.1.
I was able to boot to my MS-DOS utility floppy successfully and run IDEINFO. It detected the CF card and gave me the CHS info. I put that into BIOS and it sees the drive now. Cool. Or so I thought.
I FDISK'd the drive, formatted the drive, SYS'd it, ran SCANDISK, and everything looks good.
Then I try to boot and it immediately freezes at "Starting MS-DOS ..." If I boot to the utility floppy and try to run any of the executables from the CF card (C:) I get the same behavior.
Does anyone have a suggestions? If relevant, IDEINFO returned: 993 cyls, 16 heads, 63 SPT, 0 BPT, 512 BPS, 1 KB buffer, 4 ECC bytes. Capacity 488 MB.
Thanks!