First post, by sirlemonhead
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Hi guys,
I've got a 3com 509 ISA card with a 24 pin EPROM socket, with an XTIDE bios in it. Works great!
I happen to have a second XTIDE EEPROM and I'd like to do the same in another machine, but only seem to have later PCI 3com cards with 32pin sockets. The EEPROM is 24 Pin. The card is a 905 model
Can I put the 24 pin rom in the 32 pin socket? I tried it based on what I found online - I put the rom in such a way that the end of the socket with the notch on it is the end of the socket with the 8 empty pins when the socket is in. Is this correct?
I can get into the 3com config software and the EPROM is enabled, but no XTIDE interface appears on machine boot. I notice the bios offset is hard coded for something like 0xh and can't be changed - will this be a problem? I think the XTIDE needs to be at 0xc8 or something? Is there any way to change this outside of the 3com software perhaps?
Thanks!