First post, by Viserion
I have an IBM Valuepoint 100MHz DX4 VLB/ISA that I am trying to tweak to my needs
One of the things I have tried is getting XTIDE to work instead of the built in bios, as it only can handle 500mb or so hdd size.
I got a 3com 3C509B network card with 27512 chips, as I already had a few of them from another project.
I've used this older thread XTIDE ROM - 3COM 3C509B-C - W27E512-70 as a guide (last post on first page), and XTIDE does show up when booting computer, but will not detect anything.
Tried with sd-ide adapter, and also real ide harddrives, but no difference.
Sometimes system displays loading MS-DOS after bios hasn't found anything, but crashes before shortly after.
Sometimes it just chrash.
I have an Adpatech 1342CP isa scsi card with scsi2sd rev 5.1 installed, but if I take card out, it changes nothing.
So something I do is wrong.
I've tried a lot of things, so don't have complete overview what is done or not, but started of the same as in link above, except making a 64kb or else it would not show up.
Tried tweaking some settings by XTIDECFG and 3C5X9CFG programs, bot to no avail.
Not that knowledgeable about these things, so probably got some setting(s) wrong.
Do need help in figuring out what they are.
I could just use it as a SCSI system, but have tinkered with this long enough that I really want this to work, and then decide if I keep it SCSI or not.