ISA MFM disk controllers

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Sat Jun 20 11:21:20 CDT 2009


On Sat, June 20, 2009 7:27 am, Christian Corti wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Mr Ian Primus wrote:
>> Now, here's the dilemma. The stock card won't respond to the usual debug
>> commands - they just freeze the computer. The original 20mb 3 1/2"
>
> Normal MFM controllers never come with an own BIOS, so there's nothing to
> jump to.

  XT controllers do.  But now I recall that Ian said "WD1003" and I seem
to recall that that's the AT controller series.  I think I remember
using an "IBM Advancced Diagnostics" floppy, or something like that, for
this.

             -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL





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