Hi all,

I've been mucking around with my 'first 486 motherboard' I bought back in 1999.

I originally used it with a Seagate ST157-A IDE drive that I could easily set in the BIOS as type 14, however I have tried configuring it to use a Quantum Fireball, and later a Conner drive (120MB and 850MB-ish drive) on type 47 which is the user definable type, but the machine refuses to init the drive on POST, and fails with an error.

I know these drives work with similar motherboards, and I am aware this is just a silly BIOS config issue, but I am at a loss as to what it could be. For the record, the Conner uses a DDO and I have used it on other 486 motherboards recently and I do know both drives work regardless. It is currently booting up perfectly on the ST157-A...

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

The motherboard details can be found here:

http://motherboards.mbarron.net/models/486vlb3/mb1433uc.html