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First post, by ThenZero

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I recently got the GlitchWorks XTIDE card and set it up. Worked great!

Then I decided I wanted to customize some things with xtidecfg.com....

Apparently that was a BIG MISTAKE. I didn't notice the "Load from EEPROM" option and instead started from ide_at.bin from the xtide website.

Now it doesn't work AT ALL. It also looks totally different (???). It had a nice menu to pick the boot device and now it's just non-interactive and takes forever and then eventually says "Booting" and reboots the computer.

Anybody have the default image the glitchworks XTIDE EEPROM ships with? I'd really like to get this back in operation 😒

Reply 1 of 4, by keropi

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go here: https://www.xtideuniversalbios.org/binaries/
R622 is the latest version
you need to load the ide_atl.bin to customize, this is the one that contains the boot menu (all "l" versions contain the extra stuff like the boot selector menu)

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Reply 2 of 4, by ThenZero

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OK, so I did try that one, but it's like...12k? after I configure it, but the GW card only came with a 28C64 EEPROM which is too small for it (right?)...how did they get one of those on here? Is there a way to cut it down?

Reply 4 of 4, by ThenZero

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OK, now I've got the XTIDE card working with the latest v2 XUB.

Here's what I had to do:

1. Switch the jumpers on the card to high speed
2. Load the ide_at.bin firmware from the bin file
3. Configure the firmware as follows: 2 IDE controllers, first one set to 16 bit ISA, second one set to XTIDE rev 2, default boot 81; flash EEPROM
4. Disconnect the regular hard drive from the computer entirely, leave DOM attached to XTIDE card
5. Boot to a floppy DOS disk; check that C drive is there and corresponds to my DOM
6. Run fdisk /mbr, power off
7. Reattach the regular hard drive
8. Disable the hard drive in regular BIOS (to avoid having two "copies" of it)
9. It works!

For whatever reason I still can't boot from the regular IDE hard drive from XUB (it just reboots). To boot the regular drive I have re-enable it in BIOS, then hold Ctrl key after the BIOS boot to disable XUB and boot the regular drive. It kinda sucks because then I can't access the DOM in this mode.