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100 M Hardcard II installation
I have a Plus Hardcard II which I am trying to install into a 486 for
the purpose of copying certain DOS files off of a failing MFM hard drive. I can't seem to get the 486 to recognise the Hardcard though. It will see it if the MFM controller and drives are not in place but with the controller and drive 0 and drive 1 installed it will not. The drives are partitioned as "C" "D" and "E". The drives are 40M ST251's and they are doublespaced. I would have thought that the Hardcard would come up as the next drive but it doesn't. Basically I need to copy 1100 files to another medium, preferably IDE plus the program, (Wordperfect 5.1 for DOS) a total of about 8Mb. I could perhaps install a Scuzzy controller and drive in place but is there a way to get the hardcard working? Someone suggested that it won't work because its interface is IDE and the system already is using MFM drives. If anyone has any ideas I would appreciate hearing from you. Thanks. Lenny Stein, Barlen Electronics. |
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100 M Hardcard II installation
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oups.com... I have a Plus Hardcard II which I am trying to install into a 486 for the purpose of copying certain DOS files off of a failing MFM hard drive. I can't seem to get the 486 to recognise the Hardcard though. It will see it if the MFM controller and drives are not in place but with the controller and drive 0 and drive 1 installed it will not. The drives are partitioned as "C" "D" and "E". The drives are 40M ST251's and they are doublespaced. I would have thought that the Hardcard would come up as the next drive but it doesn't. Basically I need to copy 1100 files to another medium, preferably IDE plus the program, (Wordperfect 5.1 for DOS) a total of about 8Mb. I could perhaps install a Scuzzy controller and drive in place but is there a way to get the hardcard working? Someone suggested that it won't work because its interface is IDE and the system already is using MFM drives. If anyone has any ideas I would appreciate hearing from you. Thanks. Lenny Stein, Barlen Electronics. Hi, I can't help you with the Hardcard, but I'd suggest that you use a parallel port cable and Microsoft's Interlink to hook an old Win98 machine to your DOS box. It's reasonably fast and works fine. More info he http://www.arkanda.net/more/dcc_links.htm or via Google. Regards, Leo |
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100 M Hardcard II installation
On Jul 24, 7:54 am, "Leo Meyer" wrote:
schrieb im Newsbeitragnews:1185240820.955587.188230@k79g2000h se.googlegroups.com... I have a Plus Hardcard II which I am trying to install into a 486 for the purpose of copying certain DOS files off of a failing MFM hard drive. I can't seem to get the 486 to recognise the Hardcard though. It will see it if the MFM controller and drives are not in place but with the controller and drive 0 and drive 1 installed it will not. The drives are partitioned as "C" "D" and "E". The drives are 40M ST251's and they are doublespaced. I would have thought that the Hardcard would come up as the next drive but it doesn't. Basically I need to copy 1100 files to another medium, preferably IDE plus the program, (Wordperfect 5.1 for DOS) a total of about 8Mb. I could perhaps install a Scuzzy controller and drive in place but is there a way to get the hardcard working? Someone suggested that it won't work because its interface is IDE and the system already is using MFM drives. If anyone has any ideas I would appreciate hearing from you. Thanks. Lenny Stein, Barlen Electronics. Hi, I can't help you with the Hardcard, but I'd suggest that you use a parallel port cable and Microsoft's Interlink to hook an old Win98 machine to your DOS box. It's reasonably fast and works fine. More info hehttp://www.arkanda.net/more/dcc_links.htmor via Google. Regards, Leo- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Thanks very much for the info Leo. Best regards, Lenny. |
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100 M Hardcard II installation
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:33:40 -0700, "
wrote: I have a Plus Hardcard II which I am trying to install into a 486 for the purpose of copying certain DOS files off of a failing MFM hard drive. I can't seem to get the 486 to recognise the Hardcard though. It will see it if the MFM controller and drives are not in place but with the controller and drive 0 and drive 1 installed it will not. The drives are partitioned as "C" "D" and "E". The drives are 40M ST251's and they are doublespaced. I would have thought that the Hardcard would come up as the next drive but it doesn't. Basically I need to copy 1100 files to another medium, preferably IDE plus the program, (Wordperfect 5.1 for DOS) a total of about 8Mb. I could perhaps install a Scuzzy controller and drive in place but is there a way to get the hardcard working? Someone suggested that it won't work because its interface is IDE and the system already is using MFM drives. If anyone has any ideas I would appreciate hearing from you. Thanks. Lenny Stein, Barlen Electronics. Do you have the proper drivers for the HardCard? They came on a floppy that has probably gotten lost... John |
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100 M Hardcard II installation
On Jul 25, 6:13 am, John wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:33:40 -0700, " wrote: I have a Plus Hardcard II which I am trying to install into a 486 for the purpose of copying certain DOS files off of a failing MFM hard drive. I can't seem to get the 486 to recognise the Hardcard though. It will see it if the MFM controller and drives are not in place but with the controller and drive 0 and drive 1 installed it will not. The drives are partitioned as "C" "D" and "E". The drives are 40M ST251's and they are doublespaced. I would have thought that the Hardcard would come up as the next drive but it doesn't. Basically I need to copy 1100 files to another medium, preferably IDE plus the program, (Wordperfect 5.1 for DOS) a total of about 8Mb. I could perhaps install a Scuzzy controller and drive in place but is there a way to get the hardcard working? Someone suggested that it won't work because its interface is IDE and the system already is using MFM drives. If anyone has any ideas I would appreciate hearing from you. Thanks. Lenny Stein, Barlen Electronics. Do you have the proper drivers for the HardCard? They came on a floppy that has probably gotten lost... John- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I think that the software for the Hardcard is on its drive. I saw a bunch of stuff on it when I got it to work in a system alone without the MFM controller. It came up as drive C with no problem except that it seemed to be write protected. I'm not sure how to eliminate that because I wrote to this very card years ago. But to ask a question of the previous poster, Both the Hardcard as well as the MFM controller are 8 bit. Do you think that if I try to assign IRQ 5 for this card that it might come up? Lenny |
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