First post, by zuldan
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Spent too many hours trying to get it to working. I made some notes so I thought I’d share them to possibly help someone else in the future. The videos I watched didn’t tell you all the steps you need to get XTIDE working. There are many different configures and ROM chips you can use. This is just the configuration I decided to use with this specific ROM chip.
Computer is a 486 (Shuttle HOT-433), dual boot DOS and Windows 95 on a 10GB disk. ISA network card with an empty ROM socket. My disk setup is as follows;
Onboard Primary IDE Controller - 2GB CF Card “DOS” (Primary)
Onboard Secondary IDE Controller - 10GB Seagate “Windows” (Primary) - CDROM (Slave)
ROM chip to use is a AM27C128 (128 = 16KB chip)
XTIDE BIOS to use is ATL.bin (12KB, has all the features) - https://www.xtideuniversalbios.org/binaries/
Computer BIOS
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1. Configure all disks in BIOS (only required if using Windows 9x)
2. Enable ROM shadow on C800h (massive disk speed improvement)
XTIDECFG.com
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1. Load the XTIDE BIOS file
2. Run Auto Configure (make sure a hard drive or CF card is plugged into the Primary and Secondary IDE Controller so that both controllers are detected)
3. Primary / Secondary IDE Controller configuration (see below)
4. In a boot settings, set "Remove other hard drives" to Yes (only required if using Windows 9x)
5. Save the BIOS to the original file
Xgpro
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1. Untick "Check ID" (you can flash a AMD AM27C128 chip type to a ST AM27C128)
2. Load the XTIDE BIOS file with the "Clear buffer with 0x00" option
3. Flash the XTIDE BIOS file to the ROM chip
Network card
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1. Install ROM chip on network card
2. Configure the network card to use a boot rom at address C800h
Note: If the XTIDE BIOS does not appear during boot. Try the following;
- Move the network card to another ISA slot
- Configure the network card to use the next boot rom address (above C800h)
- Run RAYXTIDE (https://minuszerodegrees.net/xtide/RAYXTIDE/RAYXTIDE.htm) to give you an indication of what the issue may be
IDE Controller configuration
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* Primary IDE Controller
Base (cmd block) address = 1F0h
Control block address = 3F0
IRQ = 15
* Secondary IDE Controller
Base (cmd block) address = 170h
Control block address = 370h
IRQ = 14
