kishy
Veteran Member
Hey there
I've established which cards I own that my PS/2 30 286 can boot from (basically, cards which have their own BIOS). The following cards though cannot seem to be used in it:
The settings I am using are to disable every feature except for IDE, because I need to use the motherboard floppy controller and get a 601 if I leave floppy features enabled on the cards. The machine then boots to BASIC in ROM if those things aren't disabled. Other ports are disabled because I don't want to run into possible resource issues and don't need them.
If I use a card with a BIOS (and of course an appropriate drive), notably my WD WD1002A-WX1, Adaptec ACB-2072, or Juko D16-X, I am able to access the drive from a DOS boot floppy, the machine is able to boot from the drive, all that good stuff.
Why not the BIOS-less cards? I thought everything AT and up knew about IDE and how to handle it "out of the box"?
Now, of course, I could just use one of the cards that are working but that seems kind of silly since they're 8 bit and the machine could work with 16...basically I'm prepared to live with 8 bit but would like to find the optimal setup for this, which probably involves a 16 bit IDE card.
I've established which cards I own that my PS/2 30 286 can boot from (basically, cards which have their own BIOS). The following cards though cannot seem to be used in it:
The settings I am using are to disable every feature except for IDE, because I need to use the motherboard floppy controller and get a 601 if I leave floppy features enabled on the cards. The machine then boots to BASIC in ROM if those things aren't disabled. Other ports are disabled because I don't want to run into possible resource issues and don't need them.
If I use a card with a BIOS (and of course an appropriate drive), notably my WD WD1002A-WX1, Adaptec ACB-2072, or Juko D16-X, I am able to access the drive from a DOS boot floppy, the machine is able to boot from the drive, all that good stuff.
Why not the BIOS-less cards? I thought everything AT and up knew about IDE and how to handle it "out of the box"?
Now, of course, I could just use one of the cards that are working but that seems kind of silly since they're 8 bit and the machine could work with 16...basically I'm prepared to live with 8 bit but would like to find the optimal setup for this, which probably involves a 16 bit IDE card.