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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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captainvideo462002
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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:

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or via Google.

Regards, Leo

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Leo Meyer

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

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captainvideo462002

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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.

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Mike Tomlinson

Do you have the proper drivers for the HardCard?

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

John

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John

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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captainvideo462002

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