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Last gen PATA drive not recognized by XTIDE/386Hardware

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First post, by Marco

Posted on 2025-11-20, 22:17

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Dear all,

I wanted to update my pc with the last gen (original) PATA drive: WD1600AAJB.

Unfortunately the drive will only show up as follow:

XTIDE: no identifier (empty name during boot)
XTIDE/DOS/W98: capacity 126MB
HDATA2: capacity 8GB

Attention:
- these are exactly the same symptoms as with having a SATA drive connected to the system (via sata to ide Adapter)

Reg. The Last Point i know that won’t be possible on 386 systems. That’s why I went for that PATA drive. At least I thought so.

Any ideas what’s going on here? I assume the HDD interface is SATA with built-in PATA converter. Anyway I couldn’t find any detailed tech spec to prove or decline this.

Help I appreciate as usual.

Thanks

Remark: my WD800 model with also 160GB word flawless.

1) VLSI SCAMP 311 | 386SX25@TI486SXLC2-50@63 | 16MB | CL-GD5434 | CT2830| SCC-1 | MT32 | WDC160GB/7200/8MB | ~~Fast-SCSI AHA 1542CF + BlueSCSI v2/15k U320~~
2) SIS486 | 486DX/2 66(@80) | 32MB | TGUI9440 | LAPC-I

Reply 1 of 2, by Marco

Posted on 2025-11-20, 23:14

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I assume it’s the same solution with that IoRD16 thinggy. Damn. I thought this wouldn’t apply to (native) PATA drives.

Reply 2 of 2, by MikeSG

Posted on 2025-11-21, 08:10

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Try Ontrack Disk Manager: https://www.philscomputerlab.com/ontrack-disk-manager.html

It's run from a boot disk. From there install it onto the new drive, and write down the HDD settings (cyls, head) to find the closest match in BIOS.

I still use an XTIDE bios as well, for speed.

It says it supports FAT32 which should mean you get the whole 160GB, but DOS might not see it that way.

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