Re: Compaq Portable II - IDE compatibility (and setup disk image)

2015-10-07 Thread Jules Richardson
On 10/06/2015 09:35 PM, Tothwolf wrote: If you know the Softpaq number, I can see if I have the configuration disk in my archives. Thanks - I just found it last night on a vintage computer page for the Portable III (but the II seems to use the same software). It's booting from hard disk now

Re: Compaq Portable II - IDE compatibility (and setup disk image)

2015-10-06 Thread Tothwolf
On Tue, 6 Oct 2015, Tothwolf wrote: On Mon, 5 Oct 2015, Jules Richardson wrote: My Portable II uses a Miniscribe ST506/412 drive hooked up to a bridge board that I'm told is IDE at the other side, back to the controller. The original drive in my machine is toast - I had to pop the lid to free

Re: Compaq Portable II - IDE compatibility (and setup disk image)

2015-10-06 Thread Tothwolf
On Mon, 5 Oct 2015, Jules Richardson wrote: My Portable II uses a Miniscribe ST506/412 drive hooked up to a bridge board that I'm told is IDE at the other side, back to the controller. The original drive in my machine is toast - I had to pop the lid to free the spindle. It spins up now, and mi

Compaq Portable II - IDE compatibility (and setup disk image)

2015-10-05 Thread Jules Richardson
My Portable II uses a Miniscribe ST506/412 drive hooked up to a bridge board that I'm told is IDE at the other side, back to the controller. The original drive in my machine is toast - I had to pop the lid to free the spindle. It spins up now, and might cough up some data (for a while), so in