First post, by SirNickity
I bought this one on Ebay recently to have a board with a socketed 386. Seems to work otherwise, but I can't get it to read or write from/to a hard disk. Tried different ISA controllers, cables, and one each 80MB Conner and 402MB Quantum -- both work elsewhere. It boots fine from a floppy.
The BIOS is an early Award BIOS. It gives you type 48 and 49, both of which allow you to enter CHS. The drive is detected, and fdisk can "successfully" create a partition. But, if you reboot, there are no partitions defined. It doesn't seem to be able to boot from a pre-formatted HDD either. There's a boot sector virus protection option that, when enabled, prompts to allow write ops to the partition table. But, allowing the write does not seem to do anything. Disabling the option in the BIOS shows a big blue warning before booting DOS, and does not prompt when writing to disk, but it still doesn't actually work.
The board is a TK83305-4N-D-02, which appears to be a variant with CPU and math-co sockets, Award BIOS, and the Dallas RTC with integrated battery. There's a different variant on Ebay now with QFP SX CPU, an AMI BIOS, and separate RTC, external battery, and 32kHz clock crystal.
Anybody have a working board and/or a good BIOS image? (PS., what is everyone using to dump and write these? Dedicated flashing hardware, or some early flashing utility?)
