After finding an IBM portable PC in the trash, I did the usual restoration and now it's time to have fun. I grabbed a Trantor T130B scsi card and set it as follows: IRQ---5 I/O---340H Bios address---CA00H I then attached a seagate ST-296N 80+ meg hard drive, set it to ID 1 and powered the system on. The card detects the drive and the system addresses it as C: and then because the drive is not formatted I have to floppy boot and patition and format it. This is where things got strange. As the floppy loads, the drive works a bit and the activity lamp comes on and stays on, then the floppy drive stops loading and I need to do the three fingered salute. (ctrl+alt+del) The hard drive lamp stas on and the second floppy boot is successful but fdisk errors out with no fixed disks present. I thred several different dip switch settings on the card, all go the same way except for a few when the system can't even see the card. The boot floppy holds DOS 3.30 and came from an ACER system since I did not receive any origional floppies with the system, just two games and a damaged DOS 6.2 disk What's going on? The termination and cables are fine and should I set zero wait state to on or off? I currently have it set to off. EDIT: For some strange reason, the ROM on the card takes over the boot when no scsi devices are installed. Usually what happens is that if the system can't find anything to boot from, it will dump you into the onboard BASIC. When the card is installed and there is nothing to boot from, I instead get "looking for SCSI or floppy devices to boot from". Is there anyway for me to stop it looking for something to boot from and go to BASIC? To me it really limits me to using basic off disks. _________________________________________________________________ This Easter, Get Active With Live Maps! http://local.live.com/?mkt=en-ca/?v=2&cid=A6D6BDB4586E357F!101