First post, by twix
Some weeks a ago I received an IBM model 30 (8086) , that had been in storage for 25 years. If the info is correct, it was originally sold in 1987, and last used in 1997. The machine works fine, with the exception of the floppy drive. I suspect the caps have gone bad, as the drive speed is wrong, and there is no activity of the seeker motor.
I am trying to connect the machine to a network, and for that purpose bought a UMC9008F card. I selected this card because it should work in the model 30's 8-bit ISA slots, although the card itself is 16 bits. So I installed and configured the card to work in Jumperless mode using specified IRQ and base address. The configuration software and diagnostics software also work fine and indicate that the card is fully functional. However, if I try to load a packet driver, the machine completely locks up., requiring a hard reset.
Has anybody tried to use this combination of hardware and managed to get it working?