thisadi wrote:So, i tryed using uniflash 1.5 and it says it cant run because i dont have a 486. I found version 1.0 but it was in french only. I will try the french version and version 1.6 tonight.
Anyway, i tried all kinds of settings with jumpers and it still didnt see my cdrom. So i bought a ide controller. It didnt come with any jumpers on it and i couldnt find any info about it.
Can anyone tell me the jumper settings on this controller for using a cdrom?
For that, you'll want to set JP3 to "3-4", for secondary. You've only got one IDE onboard, that would be primary. Tertiary and quaternary are for third and fourth channels respectively, which is witchety on old hardware (it's weird to see an ISA controller that can do it, even - I've only ever used PCI ones!)
Once it's on secondary, set your CD drive to master and plug it in there, boot from a DOS boot floppy with a CD driver, and see if it works. In my experience, some just don't. I have two 486 rigs I'm trying to get fully working right now, but only one PATA CD drive, so I'm also using a SATA one with an adapter. On one board, that works just fine, but on the other it doesn't show up, no matter how hard I try.
Older - but not TOO old - drives are likely to work. You ideally want something from after IDE had stabilized, but before SATA came out, so something from 1998-2002 or so, in a perfect world. Too old, and you get some bizarre not-quite-standard-IDE stuff, plus some of those units with a 40-pin proprietary interface.
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