It seems to be of the same family as mine. Let me see if I still have a photo of my box. It listed all options.

sprcorreia wrote:

It seems to be of the same family as mine. Let me see if I still have a photo of my box. It listed all options.

Cool... 😀

It's early 90s, "superIDE" but not very super, I'd be trying drives under 300MB on it. Also may not be ATAPI compliant so don't have any CD ROMS on the cable confusing things. Should have 2 1MB SIMMS installed, if those are 4MB or 256K then change them out for 1MBs. Part number is on the board 41209900

Promise DC-99M.

BitWrangler wrote:

It's early 90s, "superIDE" but not very super, I'd be trying drives under 300MB on it. Also may not be ATAPI compliant so don't have any CD ROMS on the cable confusing things. Should have 2 1MB SIMMS installed, if those are 4MB or 256K then change them out for 1MBs. Part number is on the board 41209900

Still no luck. 🙁 It kind of feels like the controller part is disabled or something, or I need to enter a specific key kombination, that are not displayed, in order to enter the BIOS on the card it self. Hmmmm....

sprcorreia wrote:

Promise DC-99M.

Thanks... 😀 I will google some information, regarding setting options of the card.

EDIT:
Does not look like it is the right model. 🙁
http://arvutimuuseum.ee/th99/c/P-R/20167.htm

brostenen wrote:

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sprcorreia wrote:

Promise DC-99M.

Thanks... 😀 I will google some information, regarding setting options of the card.

EDIT:
Does not look like it is the right model. 🙁
http://arvutimuuseum.ee/th99/c/P-R/20167.htm

That doesn't mean that they are correct... Link to the pictures of my original Promise box.

http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?75337-Pr … ISK-ACCELERATOR

EDIT: Same card on Vogons.
Bought these (retro) hardware today

Hmmm.... Seems as the card I have, might be dead. 🙁
I even had a 256mb dom and a 32mb CF card hooked up on this thing.
Nothing that I have tried, have provided any positive results.

There are only two jumpers on the card, and as I can not find any info on them, I do not know what they are for.

Mine worked just fine with a 128MB DOM. Does it boot from the floppy? Mine came configured for 5,25" and it wouldn't boot properly. Inside the disk there was an utility that allowed to configure the card , change floppy type, enable or disable cache, etc.

Yup... Boots the first MS-Dos 6.22 install disk fine. I can start programs directly, and FDISK reports no drive (obviously)
Basically, there are a tool to set this card up?

Type of machine? I didn't have a good experience with Pentium motherboards.
386/486 is really the way to go with these cards.
Once you disable the onboard IDE (if you have any present) put the CHS by hand (type 47).

sprcorreia wrote:

Type of machine? I didn't have a good experience with Pentium motherboards.
386/486 is really the way to go with these cards.
Once you disable the onboard IDE (if you have any present) put the CHS by hand (type 47).

The testmachine is an 486dx2-80 on a VLB motherboard and 16mb of ram.
I think that I have found the correct drivers/tools online... Can you confirm if this might be the correct ones?

http://files.mpoli.fi/unpacked/hardware/hdd/p … omise/dc99.zip/

Yes, those are the files.

SUCCESSS....... Yippieee..... I tried the installation suite/tools that I found online, and tested the card with the tools.

Then wrote the exact drive parameters in the motherboard BIOS, by hand, although the motherboard can autodetect.
Then I rebooted and had contact with the harddrive (16gb Seagate) and I had contact with the Conner (540mb) that I have.
I had contact with two different CF cards the same way... One is a 512mb and the other is a 32mb.

This is great... It just need a very specific way of installing a harddrive on.
A way of installing that I have not seen before. Nor ever tried.
This thing of manually having to enter the drive parameters when motherboard supports autodetecting.

I am not quite shure why this is. I think it is because the motherboard autodetect tool can not see through the 80186/Controller-BIOS.

I'm glad you got it working.

sprcorreia wrote:

I'm glad you got it working.

Thanks for the help. 😀 Now I really do not know were to use this thing. Yet I am really happy that this is working. Perhaps it will go in a ISA-Only 486-dx-33/ET-4000 system. It's a wonderfull card, yet I have not really exploited its useabillity as of now, in order to decide if I am going to keep it or sell.

I have made an ZIP file for people who want the software....

Thanks for packing up the software. Maybe send it to Vogonsdrivers.com?

I would love to see benchmarks as you're playing with this thing.