First post, by fool
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I have ASUS PVI-486AP4+Am5x86-133 and trying to connect 512MB (495) CF card. BIOS supports LBA.
There are 3 options to use connecting HDD:
1. Motherboard local IDE Controller
2. QD6580W VLB Controller
3. GW2760 ISA Controller
BIOS does not recognize (or work if configured manually) CF card as MASTER using:
1. Motherboard local IDE controller
2. QD6580W VLB Controller
BIOS recognizes CF card in SLAVE (D:) mode if another HDD or CDROM is jumpered as MASTER using:
- All the cases 1-3
BIOS recognizes CF card in MASTER mode (single) using:
3. GW2760 ISA Controller
540MB spinning HDD is recognized as MASTER is all cases, but I don't want to use it (terrible noise and bad clusters).
With another 512MB CF card the same happens.
CF card with the same adapter is working great in another machine.
I would like to use VLB controller because this is the only VLB mobo I have, and theoretically it's faster than ISA. And because I need floppy, controller card is a must because mobo does not have one.
I could try to change the "CF to IDE40" -adapter but hard to belive it would make any difference. BIOS is updated 0202 -> 0205.beta2 and the same thing with both versions.
I just can't figure out what is the problem?
VLB and mobo controller are behaving similarly. Is it possible hat GW2760 uses own routines as there are no problems?
VLB controller is the same card as in the picture
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