I'm really not sure what might be going wrong here.
#SEAGATE LOW LEVEL FORMAT TOOL BOOTABLE WINDOWS#
I don't have any DOS floppies right now, but I have tried to start Windows 98 setup, however the Raite Optoelectronics RDR-108H 8x DVD-ROM drive doesn't even want to open it's tray to let me put a CD in. No operating system is installed on this computer as far as I know, neither on the main hard disk (A 545MB Seagate Medalist IDE) or on the Seagate ST251-MLC2. I can get a list of ICs on each, but I feel that'll only get me so far before it's just not helpful. The only markings I have to go off of are on the main IC and the Cirrus Logic's BIOS chip, which is labeled "SM-1150 VER 3.18". The other two (one is a Western Digital with no model numbers, and the other one is a Cirrus Logic board and laid out pretty much the same but still with no model numbers.
It just seems to not be detected by this card (or at least not properly) and the other cards seem not to be detected by the computer. The drive spins up and does it's seek tests properly as far as I know.
When the computer starts up (It's labeled ACS and it's an AT-class Pentium-133 with 128MB of RAM, I have pictures if needed) it counts memory twice and gives all the standard POST outputs until for a flash of a second you can see "1701" at the end of the "Searching for boot media." message. First off, happy Thanksgiving to everybody who celebrates it!Īnyways, I've got a Seagate ST251-MLC2 hard disk and 3 separate ISA MFM controllers (currently using an IBM 6135983 controller because it's the only one that seems to respond at all).