100 M Hardcard II installation

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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.

 

[Leo Meyer]

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 here: http://www.arkanda.net/more/dcc_links.htm or via Google.

Regards, Leo

 

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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 here:http://www.arkanda.net/more/dcc_links.htmor via Google.

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Thanks very much for the info Leo. Best regards, Lenny.

 

[Mike Tomlinson]

Someone suggested that it won't work because
its interface is IDE and the system already is using MFM drives.

Possibly. Is the Hardcard 8-bit ISA? If it is, it's probably using
IRQ5 and should work. If it's 16-bit, it's conflicting with the
existing hard disc controller (i.e. both the hardcard and the MFM
controller are attempting to use IRQ14.)

You may get more suggestions if you post to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.sto
rage.

I'd suggest forgetting about trying to use a hard drive. Consider using
a parallel Laplink cable and Interlnk.exe (included with DOS 6.22 IIRC)
or a parallel Zip drive.

 

[John]

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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Do you have the proper drivers for the HardCard?

They came on a floppy that has probably gotten lost...

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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