Most of those cards were based on generic reference designs, so the jumper settings you found are probably the same.

But you should clean that card before anything else... it's not surprising that it doesn't work considering how grimy the slot contacts are.

Have you tried cleaning the contacts with alcohol+paper cloth or a pencil eraser? It looks a bit dusty.
Also, have you tried the card in another board? There "might" be somekind of compatibility problem with the 386 board?

What is it, though? It looks to me like it's supposed to have a serial and a parallel port on it.

What is it, though? It looks to me like it's supposed to have a serial and a parallel port on it.

Am I misunderstanding your question, or have you really never seen a multi-IO card before? 😕

Yeah, it's supposed to have a serial and parallel port, though somebody took the DB9 connector off that one for some reason... in fact, it has two serial port headers and a game port header, in addition to the IDE and floppy, just like the hundreds of other various multi-IO cards out there.

sliderider wrote:

What is it, though? It looks to me like it's supposed to have a serial and a parallel port on it.

There are com connectors in the top right (can vaguely read COM1/3 and COM 2/4) but the parallel is indeed missing.

The parallel is "on-board"...

iulianv wrote:

The parallel is "on-board"...

DOH!

Yeah, methinks some people forgot to get their cup of coffee this morning. The parallel port is onboard, and it's kinda hard to miss, too. Big black DB25 port, takes up most of the back edge of the card, says "Printer" right above it...

Old Thrashbarg wrote:

Yeah, methinks some people forgot to get their cup of coffee this morning. The parallel port is onboard, and it's kinda hard to miss, too. Big black DB25 port, takes up most of the back edge of the card, says "Printer" right above it...

I think this was more a situation of "time for cup #2! 😁"

Lol, been a while since I last messed with those ISA controller cards 😜

Ok, tried this out in the 386 and JP7 disables the floppy controller. Tried it out in my K6-3+ with the motherboard COM and LPT ports disabled and a few system analyzers and it detects the COM and LPT ports but doesn't seem to do much else. Forgot to mention that no matter what I seem to do, the 386 motherboard (Contaq-386) always says "HDD controller failed."

Have you set any properties for a HDD?

Yep, with a few different drives as well

Bugger it, I'll buy one off ebay. Thanks for the help guys. 😀

🤣, just tried a 128mb Conner drive and it works! Sweet! 😁

Chewhacca wrote:

🤣, just tried a 128mb Conner drive and it works! Sweet! 😁

That's what I call "fast shipping"!!! 😁

😜 😜 😜
Any luck with any of the other ports?

All of the other parts seem to work. I'll do a loopback test on the ports to make sure though. I'll post benchmarks maybe when I get a chance.