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Help with Sergey's 8-Bit FDC and Serial Port board.

I'm re-reading the thread to see if I haven't replied to someone's suggestions.

I bought a GQ-4x and flashed the 2.2 BIOS onto the chip in the original FDC. It now boots and gives the F2 option to set the FDD type. Set at 1.44 Mb and 360 kb.
 
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fjk61011 said:
Would it be worth my while investing in a GQ-4x?

My new XT-FDC has arrived and works in my IBM XT.

My problem now is to get my .BIN file and XTIDECFG onto my IBM XT to flash my original FDC. I have a packet driver for an EtherLink II which is in the XT. I have some mTCP files on a 360 kb disk and will try to set up an FTP server on the XT and transfer the files that way.

I'll then get back to flashing my original XT-FDC and report back
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Malc said:
Ah i see the pic in your reply, I do wish folk would trim pics down, It's unnecessary and costly for poor plebs like me.
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How do I shrink the picture?
 
Synopsis of build:

IBM XT 5160, not a clone.

AT PSU

Slot 1, CGA

Slot 2, AST SixPakPlus

3 EtherLink II

4 Parallel card

5 SCSI card,

6 FDC

CGA monitor

SCSI HDD

FH 360 kb FDD

Boots from A: drive if it has a disk in the FDD

Boots from SCSI otherwise (DOS 3.30 in German)

Have a Parallel port Backpack 1.44 MB drive.

I'll use the XT-FDC and Serial port either in the 5150 or the DTK xt.
 
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I bought a GQ-4x and flashed the 2.2 BIOS onto the chip in the original FDC. It now boots and gives the F2 option to set the FDD type, set for 1.2 Mb 5.25" and 1.44 Mb 3.5" combo and boots off the 1.2 Mb.
 
BarryM said:
Have you tried a Gotek FD emulator? LCD mod on that and it’s great alternative to old floppies. Couple that with a Greaseweasel to capture images from other floppy drives and you’ll have a great system.
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Bought a Gotek and GreaseWeasel. Will set them up and report back
 
fjk61011 said:
If I'm booting from the XT-FDC what setting do I use on the XT motherboard?
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I'm curious. Why ask this question? For example, if you configure the Multi-Floppy BIOS for two drives, you could just play safe and set the motherboard switches to two drives.

You have used "booting". Unable to boot from floppy? If that is the case, note that with the XT-IDE (or XT-CF) also fitted, to boot from A:, I expect that you will need to press the A key when you see the XTIDE Universal BIOS' hotkeybar appear.
 
modem7 said:
I'm curious. Why ask this question? For example, if you configure the Multi-Floppy BIOS for two drives, you could just play safe and set the motherboard switches to two drives.

You have used "booting". Unable to boot from floppy? If that is the case, note that with the XT-IDE (or XT-CF) also fitted, to boot from A:, I expect that you will need to press the A key when you see the XTIDE Universal BIOS' hotkeybar appear.
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Wasn't sure if motherboard switches mattered. Hadn't thought it through.
 
Productive day. I set the Gotek for PC and installed MS-DOS 6.22 on a DOM on a XT-IDE. I had to use FDISK /MBR to get DOS to work. Next part is to transfer a packet driver and mTCP on the 5160.

Have to work out how to put files into the Gotek to transfer those files.
 
I've installed DOS on a DOM on XT-IDE. I had to use FDISK /MBR to get the DOS to boot. Sometimes on subsequent boots I have to run FDISK /MBR again.
 
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