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First post, by HanJammer

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I need any info (manual? drivers?) on this card. It's IDE controller with BIOS (although I'm not quite sure why it has one). I hoped it is EIDE but it doesn't seem to be the case.
I have some problems with it in my 486 VLB build - it gives a choice of three modes on boot (Turbo which is default, Fast and Normal) but only Fast and Normal seem to work (Turbo hangs on DOS boot - althogh with DOS7 it seemed to work fine as long as I stayed on HDD and didn't tried to access CF card).

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Reply 1 of 2, by Horun

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I think it is a DC-4000 series but can not narrow it down. http://www.plasma-online.de/ has some listings of the Promise cards but googling some of them gave me nothing

Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. https://archive.org/details/@horun

Reply 2 of 2, by HanJammer

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Thanks. I suspect it is some third party card, just chip and BIOS provided by Promise... Jumpers are unlike on their other cards and it doesn't have modes selected by jumpers - instead you select it during boot with a firmware menu.

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