Don't need a '286, thank heavens...

[James Brigman]

Keith;

You're dead-on right. I've got a P133 I offered to Bill via direct msg. to
his email address. It's got an Award BIOS that has an entry for a "Type 40"
drive, which is 42MB, 17 sectors, 820 cylinders. Should do the trick quite
nicely. The mbd has ISA slots for the DTK controller and the IDE ports can
be disabled to free up the interrupts. It's a neat little QDI mbd, about 6
years old, used to be sold by one of our friendly PC retailers in the
triangle. Only question remaining then becomes if there's any kind of a
driver required due to BIOS changes, but I thought IDE drives used the same
BIOS routines as any of those old, ancient drive types.

JKB

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ncsa-discussion-admin@ncsysadmin.org
> [mailto:ncsa-discussion-admin@ncsysadmin.org]On Behalf Of Keith Johnson
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 4:39 PM
> To: ncsa-discussion@ncsysadmin.org
> Subject: RE: Looking for old 286...
>
>
> I'm not quite sure why you want to use an old system. Any PC with
> an ISA bus
> that has the correct IRQ(s)and port address space available
> should work with
> that DTK disk controller. Do you have the BIOS settings correct
> for the 251? I
> think those old MFM drives used drive types 40 and 44 -- but I may be
> remembering this wrong.
>
> keith
>
> Quoting Jim Ray <jim@neuse.net>:
>
> > i've got a 386 that i use as a door stop that will prolly work.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bill May
> > To: ncsa-discussion@ncsysadmin.org
> > Sent: 7/24/02 10:42 AM
> > Subject: Looking for old 286...
> >
> > I was given a Seagate ST-251 42 MB disk and DTK PTI-220 board out of
> > my
> > father's OLD computer. My siblings would very much like for me to get
> > the
> > data off the disk, but I cannot get my oldest machine (NEC Powermate
> > P133
> > running NT 4.0 SP6) to recognize the disk and/or board.  I have hunted
> > the
> > web and this website for information pertaining to the PTI-220 board
> > with
> > very little luck. (The many numbers I've found for DTK have all been
> > disconnected.)
> >
> > Someone suggested that the best bet might be to find an old 286
> > architecture
> > computer to use to access the disk and pull the data off.  Does anyone
> > have
> > such a machine they would let me borrow, have, or buy?  (I'd prefer to
> > know
> > the machine is already working so I don't have to troubleshoot it and
> > the
> > board/disk I'm trying to access.)
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > -Bill
> > mayb@veritas.com
> > (919) 405-3057
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