First post, by bestemor
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Ok, got these:
- Abit BH6 (v1.02, bios JJ) slot 1 motherboard.
- SIIG Ultra AtA66 (model CN2468), old new stock(sealed), 1999 or so.
Now, when connecting HDD to the mb itself, no problem, boots to DOS just fine.
But if connected to card, and no other disks present, then it's just 'DISK BOOT FAILURE INSERT SYSTEM DISK' etc etc...
I notice the PCI card gets recognized as a device and all, but that's about it...
Tried various settings in the bios, some getting further than other (some just get stuck after memory count), even increased hdd dectection time from 0 to 10 seconds.
Any idea on what I'm doing wrong ?
Or is this just not possible ?
For 'fun', I finally took out the old controller card, and get the same results...
(at least that one was confirmed bootable in it's previous location, so...)
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Now, for those of you who wonder what lunacy this is, I don't really intend to run like that on this particular mb, but... this is part of my testing to make an old AT mb boot the hdd - one that has no built in controllers/add-on only. It suddenly didn't find the hdd, after 13 years with no problems.
(I've ruled out the PSU as the culprit so far.)
Trying to find era specific controller cards(1995), but no luck.
And I do believe the original card still actually works (but having no way to test it, it seems).
So I fear it is the old motherboard itself that is wonky - but strange that it works fine apart from the 'missing' hdd... hmm 😒