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Need help getting Promise EIDE 2300 Plus (VLB) working?

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First post, by p6889k

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I'm trying to get Promise EIDE 2300 Plus working on FIC 486-GIO-VT in VESA slot 0 and can't get it to recognize IDE drive. It recognizes Floppy drive, but not IDE. During boot I see the EIDE2300 BIOS post message reporting BIOS version 3.3, but then I get the non system disk boot message. If I boot from floppy and run EIFDISK.exe from the Promise install disk, I get an error message "Controller 170h Not Found!!".

I disabled IDE and Floppy controller that's on the motherboard.

I tried in BIOS to setup primary disk drive as Nothing, Type 1 and Type 47. Neither worked.

Can you help.

Also, does anyone have a PDF of the original EIDE2300 manual? I have the jumper settings, but not full manual.

Thank you.

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Reply 1 of 2, by majestyk

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The GIO-VT normally has a promise VLB IDE controller onboard. To disable it, several jumpers need to be altered.
(There´s also a version without this chip, then the Winbond super-I/O takes care of IDE and must be disabled.)

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Did you check all the settings in the manual?

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Reply 2 of 2, by p6889k

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Thanks for the advice, I figured it out. Originally I had IDE and FDC jumpers disabled, but there was one more jumper that needed to be disabled labeled "Local IDE Select".

Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k, 48k+, 128k, +2
Amiga 1200, 68030/40mhz
386DX/33, ET4000, SBPro2, MT32
Dual PPro/200, Millennium II, Voodoo 2, AWE32, SC-55
etc.

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