WTD: 386 motherboard

On 25/01/11 03:41, Philip Pemberton wrote: [...] Hi guys, Just found an old AMD K6-II/500 machine in the scrap pile. Turns out it's got 192MB RAM, and an "all in one" motherboard with two ISA slots and a bunch of PCI slots. But the good part is that it works with both the Western Digital MFM and Seagate RLL controller cards! The WD1003-WA2 needs to be set up in the BIOS -- as in, you need to set the CHS values for the drive. Cycle power and it boots (if you've got the cables wired correctly, that is!). The card appears to have no BIOS of its own, so it has none of the auto-detection or other toys (e.g. low-level formatter) that the Seagate has. For the Seagate ST22R, you set the BIOS to "no MASTER/SLAVE HDD" on either the primary or secondary channel (depending on how the controller is jumpered) and let the controller's BIOS do the hard work. Even simpler... It looks like it'll probably only work with Seagate drives, though you'd pretty much expect that from a Seagate controller... Another morning successfully wasted :) -- Phil. classiccmp at philpem.me.uk http://www.philpem.me.uk/