Vogstefan wrote on 2021-09-01, 16:45: @Krille I know it can be better but getting it working first should be priority You're not making sense here. You do realize that compatibility mode doesn't make it any more likely to work than high speed mode? It's just a somewhat poor choice of wording on the …

The only reason to jumper the card to compatibility mode is if you want to use older versions of XTIDE Universal BIOS or the BIOS made by hargle. To be honest, I don't see why anyone would want to do that. If you are using a newer version of XUB then configure the XTIDE card to use high speed mode ( …

EDIT: I may have spoken too soon . I'm getting weird behavior in Windows 98 SE, among which slow performance, the absence of the IDE drive in device manager/disk drives (and hence inability enable DMA mode). I tried rloew's patch to ESDI_506.PDR (instead of BHDD) but saw no change . Is it running …