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First post, by Kouwes

Posted on 2023-10-20, 06:26

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I have a 486 board laying around that always gives a controller failure, so I’m going to try it with an xt-ide card.
There’s a lot of info tob e found but I still have some questions.
Since the xt-ide card has no connections (it’s an old nic) I still need a controller card for my CF adapter. Can I also use a floppy drive?
I guess the CD ROM drive will be no problem, it’s a 2x speed with interface card.
So, I can make a bootable DOS 6.22 CF card in another system, connect it to the 486 and I’m good to go?
Can you still access the onboard bios with an xt-die card?

Reply 1 of 5, by GigAHerZ

Posted on 2023-10-20, 06:46

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All good, just go with it.
Only thing to add is that in motherboard's bios, disable all hard drives. They will be auto-handled by xt-ide.

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Reply 2 of 5, by kingcake

Posted on 2023-10-20, 06:47

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Can you still access the onboard bios with an xt-die card?

Yep. XT-IDE loads as an option ROM. So the BIOS will go through it's normal POST routine (During which you can access BIOS setup like normal), and then it will load the XT-IDE option ROM.

Reply 3 of 5, by weedeewee

Posted on 2023-10-20, 12:12

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Kouwes wrote on 2023-10-20, 06:26:

I still need a controller card for my CF adapter. Can I also use a floppy drive?

No.

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Reply 4 of 5, by GigAHerZ

Posted on 2023-10-20, 13:08

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weedeewee wrote on 2023-10-20, 12:12:

Kouwes wrote on 2023-10-20, 06:26:

I still need a controller card for my CF adapter. Can I also use a floppy drive?

No.

I'm using XT-IDE and floppy drives at the same time...

"640K ought to be enough for anybody." - And i intend to get every last bit out of it even after loading every damn driver!
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Reply 5 of 5, by weedeewee

Posted on 2023-10-20, 13:10

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GigAHerZ wrote on 2023-10-20, 13:08:

weedeewee wrote on 2023-10-20, 12:12:

Kouwes wrote on 2023-10-20, 06:26:

I still need a controller card for my CF adapter. Can I also use a floppy drive?

No.

I'm using XT-IDE and floppy drives at the same time...

Sur, but then again, I'm reading it as, can I use my CF interface card on the floppy cable. To which the answer is just plainly, No.

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