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First post, by King_Corduroy

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Hello guys, I really need your expertise. I know absolutely nothing about this system but I took a video of it so you can see exactly what is going on. The motherboard is labelled EV-3000a and the clock battery (thankfully external) is not holding a charge so it doesn't remember settings when I turn it off for more than a few seconds. I've looked up the HDD and found out the specs but I still cannot get it to recognize it. 😒

So here is the video that explains everything in a bit more detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQiNscrcOUY

Please help, I really want to get this system working correctly.

Thanks in advance 😁

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Reply 2 of 3, by chinny22

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I have the HDD parameters set manually on my PC and get the same HDD controller error when I forget to inset a CF card. Its looking for a HDD but cant find the one specified in BIOS.
I would definitely plug the HDD into a newer PC with so you can auto detect, and confirm the parameters, Not sure what to do if they don't match any on your controller though
Also I don't think you should be entering the details for both HDD 1 and 2 as obviously there is no 2nd HDD. Wild guess but maybe type 0 means no 2nd drive?

Reply 3 of 3, by buyerninety

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LOGITECH INC 200033-00B DZL6QBP7-3F ISA 8 BIT MOUSE ADAPTER BOARD.

Plus Development Corp Hardcard II XL 105 16 bit AT bus (ISA/EISA) interface
- be gentle manhandling this, it has actual (hard drive 105MB) disk platters in it.
http://www.erinat.com/DSMuseum/1990s/1992HardCard/index.html
If it has a silver coloured sticker on the (Hardcard) chip, that may have markings
relating to settings for the Hardcard, for the 8 pin block on its right.
If you disconnect the Mitsubishi drive, do you still get one hard drive detected?
If yes, it's probably the Plus HardCard. Below is about Plus's earlier drives,
but the information should be applicable to your Plus drive.
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=jy8EAAAAM … epage&q&f=false
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Zi8EAAAA … disk%22&f=false

Below is quoted directly off the containing box for a Hardcard II XL 105
that recently sold on ebay...
"Compatible with...
IBM PC AT, PS/2 Model 30/286, Compaq deskPro 386, and all other
fully compatible 80286, 80386 and 80486 computer systems.
Operating Systems;
The manufacturers version of DOS, v3.0 and later,
OS/2: v1.1 and v1.2
SCO Xenix 286 System V, v2.3.2 and later
SCO Unix 386 System V, v2.0 and later
IBM PC LAN, v1.3
Windows Environments;
MS Windows 3.0
Quarterdeck DESQview, v2.26 and later
Network Operating Systems;
Novell Advanced and SFT NetWare 286, v2.10 and later
OS/2 LAN Manager
3Com 3+, v1.3.1 and later."

..."AIRLOCK (feature) automatically locks heads in a non-data zone."

Recent statement by member QBiN; "My old 286 used one of those "Hardcards"
... I believe it was a 70MB Quantum (Plus Development Corp owner) hard drive+
controller+BIOS built into a single full-length ISA card."