I have HP Vectra QS/16S Intel 386. I am trying to get a IDE Compact Flash drive working . This HP system has a floppy disk loading BIOS settings program. In the BIOS, you need to initialize hard drives
When you try to initialize a hard drive it has you pick from a list of proprietary HP hard drive types by #, with pre filled capacity, cylinders, heads, sectors, etc.

The BIOS for the QS is picky and only accepts disks types from 1 to 47.. I cannot set manually the heads and sectors...

I can pick from the list type #1, I don't recall what specs are pre chosen but, I can boot with no errors. Use fdisk to access partition and it shows the drive and I can format at 2gb. I then try to install dos 6.22. It gets all the way to 99% and I get a hard drive write fail.

Does anyone have experience with these Vectra systems and adding an ide compact flash drive?

Ide compact flash drive:

https://www.sybausa.com/index.php?route=produ … &product_id=611

Pics for reference:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fl3steos9n7xdsg/AA … Yi5sskTxYa?dl=0