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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!decwrl!ampex!russest
- From: russest@ampex.com (Steve Russell)
- Subject: Re: Weird IDE/Motherboard problem
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.192920.20400@ampex.com>
- Sender: usenet@ampex.com (News Poster)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: rcs
- Organization: Ampex Corporation, Redwood City CA
- References: <1992Aug10.170844.9268@tin.monsanto.com> <weissh.21.713544614@nextadm.cc.vt.edu>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 19:29:20 GMT
- Lines: 20
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- In article <1992Aug10.170844.9268@tin.monsanto.com> kncarp@nicsn1.monsanto.com (Kevin N. Carpenter) writes:
- >
- >>Anyhow, whenever we configure his IDE drive into CMOS, the machine refuses
- >>to boot. It won't even respond to the DEL to reset CMOS. If I yank power
- >>from the disk drive, the machine will eventually time out and let me
- >>deconfigure the drive from CMOS. When deconfigured, I can boot from floppy,
- >>but thats not the goal <grin>. If I install the disk & controller in his
- >>old machine, all works fine. I tried buying a new Seagate IDE controller -
- >>same problem: it works in the 286, refuses to work in the 386.
- >
- >>This 386 has successfully worked with MFM and SCSI disk controllers in the
- >>past. BIOS is early 1990 vintage. Testing was done with only a video card
- >>and the IDE controller installed.
-
- Try another vendor of ide controllers. The CCAT-100/200/400 series have worked
- for me in all 386/486 installations which wouldn't work with DTK/SEAGATE/WD
- controllers. Probably due to bus timing...
-
- -steve
-
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