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First post, by daddyMorendo

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Hello,

Recently I've started getting an error on my new-ish 486 machine I could use some help with. I've got an SD to IDE adapter and had been using it fine up until yesterday when trying to boot.

On boot, my system has started giving the error that it can't autotype the drive and I'm unable to get it to be recognized now.

I've attempted different IDE cables,
different IDE ports on my motherboard,
removing all other components,

I also attempted getting WHATIDE to tell me the configuration but I guess I'm not even at a point where the drive can be read while in MSDOS because I got the message there were no disks available.

PB450 Motherboard
Phoenix Bios 4.03
486 SX2

not sure if maybe my hard drive controller just decided to die or what

Before I started having these issues I was messing with CD drives on my sound blaster card (which i've removed) but I doubt that would give me these issues since it's not even in my machine now

I was also messing with the on board modem which is on some kind of daughterboard on my mobo.

Reply 1 of 1, by daddyMorendo

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So I went into my box of old computer parts and fished out every 40 pin IDE I could find to do some testing.

some of my drives will progress past the autotyping dialog box so I am assuming this means my motherboard is ok. I guess I'll be ordering another SD to IDE drive as I'm assuming this one has gone bad.

I've attached some of the screenshots of the errors I'm getting.

When using the SD adapter I get the "autotype failed - failure fixed disk 0"

with some of my old IDE HDDs I don't get this error and the system is able to autotype the drive (though it only goes up to 2GB)