Reply 20 of 30, by dysamoria
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pentiumspeed wrote on 2021-06-24, 23:35:Any chance the hard drive is a conner or very early IDE hard drive that uses cirrus logic IDE controller on the hard drive's? This cirrus logic chipset on the hard drives is not compatible when trying to make 2 drive to work on one cable.
Otherwise, what is the hard drive you have in this tandy?
Cheers,
The Tandy 1000 TL/2 has a built in XT style hard drive controller. It is not actually IDE, even though they use the same connectors. The ISA card that is my XT-IDE + CF card reader is NOT connected to the Tandy 1000 TL/2 hard drive controller. The XT-IDE ISA device is an XT-IDE BIOS and an IDE controller on a card, with the CF adapter bound to the card. These devices are NOT using the hard drive controller on the motherboard, and therefore not the same cable. The drive in the computer is a Western Digital XT hard drive.
This is the XT-IDE ISA card I am using for my CF adapter: https://monotech.fwscart.com/XT-IDE_Deluxe_-_ … 4_19478732.aspx
There MIGHT be some kind of address conflict with the onboard HD controller, but I figured I would have been able to exclude this by changing IDE controller addresses on the ISA card. So far, changing the address of the ISA card's IDE controller hasn't helped, but I haven't gone through all the available addresses. I wanted to come here to see what other Tandy 1000 TL/2 owners were using on theirs.