XTIDE with a Tandy TL/2

[fsmith2003]

Just curious if anyone can help me out and let me know what steps I may be missing. I have a fully assembled XT-IDE 8-Bit ISA revision 3 card for my Tandy TL/2. I run setupltl2 /a to have it boot from disk instead of from rom. The Xtide bios does show up and also shows my IDE Drive I have connected to it as Master. However when I run fdisk from my Tandy Setup floppy disk it says that there is already a "non-dos" partition on the Hard Drive and will not let me install the dos partition. I am unable to access any portion of the hard drive without using fdisk on it first so I am kind of stuck at the moment. Is anyone on here familiar with this device and what I may need to do to get this to work?

[+Gemintronic]

Not a definitive answer but the version of DOS you are using might be a factor. Older DOS versions might get confused with large drive sizes. I think MS-DOS 6.22 still supported 8088 systems.

[The Usotsuki]

Yes.

 

It may depend on the version of DOS whether FDISK is capable of deleting non-DOS partitions.

[fsmith2003]

Well I got it to work by connecting to modern computer and wiping the hard drive clean! However I can not get it to boot Dos from hard drive at all. I have to boot from Rom or Floppy to get anything going. Also certain programs and games that used to work fine now won't load correctly or load at all but only when the Xtide card is installed. When I take it out all programs work as they used to.

[soviet]

I´m not sure if its related i have a 8 bit xtide card the lite one, using a compact flash card 64 meg works fine.

Try to write 0000 to it on the a modern pc and then on the tandy do a fdisk add the partitions and then do a fdisk /mbr to replace the mbr.

Make sure that the partition si active shows the A before the partition.

Then do the format c:/s to get the system on it i´m using dos 5.0

[fsmith2003]

How do I write 0000 to it? I'm not familiar with the process.

[soviet]

example using this tool.

http://hddguru.com/software/HDD-LLF-Low-Level-Format-Tool/

[fsmith2003]

You my friend are a genius... it worked! Thanks for your help. I do have one more question. When I have the xtide installed in the system I have found that some games no longer work but as soon as I take the xtide out and run them they will work just fine. Is this some sort of a memory issue or something?

Edited December 2, 2016 by fsmith2003

[soviet]

i'm really not sure maybe i don't notice it, what games stop working for example ?.

You have run a full memory test on your computer.

[fsmith2003]

Actually, after browsing the universal bios wiki I found that on certain Tandy's you had to turn off the full feature in the bios settings of the eeprom. I did that and it worked! But it's from one thing to the next. Now I can't get my mouse to be recognized by the machine to install the drivers. I'm happy with it now but would be nice for some point and click games.

[soviet]

Very interesting i never read about that, i don´t tested mouse drivers on my HX because well don´t have any serial ports