Howdy!

Back with more problems. I've been retrofitting the good old PA-2011 system with whatever I can get my hands on... Right now, it's running a Cyrix MII-300GP, an S3 Virge, the good old AWE32, and the latest addition is a Seagate ST-277R-1 half height RLL drive. Lots of other good stuff in there, too.

I'm having a helluva time getting this old drive set up. It's running on an Adaptec ACB-2370/72C RLL controller - I can't get the damn thing to function at all, basically. Firstly, having the card present causes an "A: Drive Error" on boot which can be bypassed, which I'm a bit confused by as apparently I won't be using both a 3.5" floppy drive and this controller at the same time. It must be jumped to acknowledge a non-present 5.25" FDD right now? Secondly, there are NO RECORDS WHATSOEVER of the jumper settings for this card -I know the drive works, as I formatted it as a 10Mb drive on an old WD Winchester controller; on the Adaptec, the activity light stays on, which means I've got something installed wrong, and no drives are detected. Using single flat-ribbon cables, terminator pack installed, and everything else should be good, but I have no way whatsoever of knowing how to set this card up. When in DOS, the DEBUG -> g=cc00:5 command returns that there are no drives attached and to use "SETUP" to install any drives. I have no clue what they're referring to.

Anyone have any experience with this specific controller and/or have any tips? I'd really like to get this thing working... right now, the main 'HDD' in this system is a 4GB IDE Disk-on-Module due to space constraints in my case, and it works quite well. At the moment, I'm actually running DOS 3.31 off of a CD drive, which isn't an optimum setup, but it does a good job of getting me to the old DOS DEBUG command for low-level formatting.