First post, by aspiringnobody
I'm having trouble getting the built in IDE controller on my HP Vectra XM2 (486) working with my CF-Card to IDE adapter, so I'm going to have to use an IDE interface card. The only one I have is way too new (Ultra ATA PCI) so it is configuring my CD-Rom drive in DMA-2 mode -- and none of the dos CD drivers I have will detect it (are they PIO only?) Does anyone have a working DOS CD-Rom driver for use with DMA mode drives? There aren't any jumpers on the PCI card to configure the drive to use PIO.
The BIOS only seems to support drives less than 1gb -- I thought about using the XT-IDE Universal BIOS but that seems to have other problems once you get into a PC running windows. I could get a ISA interface but I already have the PCI one so I'd prefer to use it if I can get it to work.
The bios on this thing is truly horrendous. I wish there was a hacked bios available for it!