Reply 20 of 35, by weedeewee
Repo Man11 wrote on 2021-12-17, 02:08:tech3475 wrote on 2021-12-16, 09:53:Well I have egg on my face right now. […]
Well I have egg on my face right now.
First of all thanks to everyone for their feedback and sorry for the late response as I had things come up and I wanted to test something.
Just before posting I decided to check the system using my PCI diag card to see if it would suggest anything.
Whilst I was looking up the code in the manual while it hung.....it booted from the SSD.
Turns out, it does work but it's incredibly slow to boot the drive, in comparison to anything else including the floppy as a proxy.
For some reason it seems to just be slow when on "FF 63" (which according to the manual is the INT 19 boot attempt).
That said, it's not ideal, so I'll probably be looking at the different options, but at least I know the thing can boot on it's own.
Interesting. For the sake of experimenting, I used Super Fdisk to partion a 500 gigabyte SATA drive to 120 gigs in a much newer computer and tried that in my Asus TXP4 (which has one of Jan's excellent patched BIOS) just using a SATA to IDE adapter, but it would hang when it it tried to detect the drive. Using the 120 gig SSD that I normally do worked fine in the IDE port with the adapter.
Have you tried just manually setting the drive in the bios to the max it can detect?
I've got an old 440BX board that goes to max <64G and just have it set at the max, manually, in the bios. Can't recall how I sized up the partitions but I know I can boot from it and use the whole drive.
edit: just to clarify, if I leave the board at autodetect or try to do an autodetect in the bios, it hangs. That's why I've set it manually to the max allowed in bios.
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