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I actually figured more of it out. The different systems (80286 & 8086) handle mounting and unmounting in different configuration files...

Oh I feel you on that sentimental data. With careful work I have faith you’ll get it! Just take your time no rush at this point right...

David G I think has experience with these drives. Maybe this link might help? He makes an MFM emulator board which is awesome. I have a...

I'm thinking it's got to be something in the ROM.... I might just keep trying versions to see if I can get one to work. Because both the...

Oh and BTW I had the same issue on TWO 586T's with the same ROMS.. so it's not the motherboard or controller card..

Rich I know this thread is a year old.. and I've been chatting with Chris (who is awesome btw). I wanted to let you know my experience...

Anyone know how to modify the shutdown script attached above to create a file upon each shutdown and then verify that upon reboot in the...

This is a very old version of Xenix 3.0e so it doesn't have the updated stuff we have now.. I did notice that "mfs" is not in this...

Those two lines are ok to hash out yes? I am not sure why it added it and wants to perform an fsck to the secondary drive every boot...

I think I figured it out by sleeping on it. The add.hd added a few things to the "rc" file... I have no idea why. On my other system it...

Hello all... just thought I'd throw this out there. I have a few Altos machines.. The 886 will cleanly unmount the system's drives at...

Always a wealth of knowledge you are Svenska :) Thank you I will give these options a go :) :) Thank you :)

Well I've reverted back to the VT100. Yes it only has P1-4 for keys. The emulation basically runs perfect now except for one application...

I was just posting my progress to document what I've found, thinking this might be useful information to someone in the future. I have...

So I think my issue is there is no F1 - F4 on the VT220 keyboard by looking at one online... but there is a F1 - F4 on the VT100. Is...