First post, by treeman
So like the topic says I am trying to connect 2 ide hard drive controllers on my 486.
A the situation is my cf card adapter no way can reach the cdrom drive using the same ide cable which must be a common issue?
all my isa hard drive controllers have 1x ide 1x floppy port so in order to use a cdrom and cf card I will need separate ide controllers.
I have my cf card as a master connected on the master cable to one of my ide controllers.
I connect the cdrom as a slave on the secondary ide controller with the slave cable plug, the system boots but doesn't see the cdrom.
If I plug the cdrom to the same cable the cf card cable as a slave it boots and detects properly.
So logically thinking if I have 2 ide controllers how does the bios know which one is primary?
I had a look at the pinpoints on one of my controllers PINE
PT-607G but doesn't seem any option to make it a "master" controller if such a thing exists.
Maybye its not possible to do what I am after?
I did see a pci and isa controller in 1 system together working however