First post, by Prez
Hi everyone !
I could get my hands on a very nice Tandy 1000RL, i already love this machine and its working great on floppy disks, but this one came with no hard disks installed. It is equipped with a very old XT-IDE controller, only able to manage XT-IDE hard drives, which are very uncommon. Still, i could get a Seagate ST351A/X which is the higher capacity you could get, 40 MB. Of couse, i could use an ISA card with another XT-IDE controller, but i need my ISA port for others cards, like this guy has a marvellous configuration and i want to do things like him : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zocVXdvHZkA
But i cannot achieve to make the hard disk recognised by the T1000 RL. Nor a Compact Flash reader with a 32 MB CF works, everthing stalls. When i launch FDISK from MSDOS 3.3 for Tandy 1000RL, it only says it sees no fixed hard disks. I read somewhere that you must initialize a new hard disk using HDINSTALL Deskmate utilities, but i simply cannot find this utility somewhere on internet ! Maybe there is another way to make the hard disk recognisable ?
Thanks for you help !
Best regards,
Philippe Dubois.
Old computers and videogames freak
President of french association https://mo5.com
Get better, get old ! 😁