First post, by PTherapist
I have an old Seagate ST-225 Hard Drive, with an 8-bit ISA "LCS-6210D Rev. A3" controller card. These 2 were paired up in an original 8088-based motherboard that hasn't worked in years.
Numerous times I've tried the drive & card in more modern PCs and mostly recently I tried it on an IBM 5160 XT motherboard, but nothing seems able to access it. On 1 system I tried it in, I ran several system info tools and 1 of them (either Astra or HWInfo) showed an entry for "MFM Hard Drive" but that's about it, still no way of accessing the drive.
The controller card itself has 1 jumper, which seems to set the options - Base address C8000h or Base address E8000h. Neither makes any difference.
At a guess this card perhaps lacks a BIOS/boot ROM and it may have been controlled from the original motherboard.
Any suggestions? I don't even know if the hard drive still works as it hasn't been used in a working system in over 20 years.