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  • Lacuna 76 Boot ROM (XT-IDE)

    From michael dombrowski@ab1244@yahoo.com to comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware on Tue Jan 7 19:24:48 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware

    Another Lacuna question... There is at least some PS/2 support for
    XT-IDE (See McIDE). I have a 76i, and it has a 3c529 with a boot ROM
    socket. I've tried the McIDE firmware, as well as the two official
    XT-IDE firmwares labeled "ps2", but I can't seem to get the system to
    use the boot rom. I set a ROM location using the REF disk. Is there
    more magic to this? Is there a known PS/2-compatible boot ROM that I
    can use to test my setup?

    thanks
    mike

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  • From Louis Ohland@ohland@charter.net to comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware on Tue Jan 7 20:16:37 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware

    I'll watch your efforts from afar.

    michael dombrowski wrote:
    Another Lacuna question... There is at least some PS/2 support for
    XT-IDE (See McIDE). I have a 76i, and it has a 3c529 with a boot ROM
    socket. I've tried the McIDE firmware, as well as the two official
    XT-IDE firmwares labeled "ps2", but I can't seem to get the system to
    use the boot rom. I set a ROM location using the REF disk. Is there
    more magic to this? Is there a known PS/2-compatible boot ROM that I
    can use to test my setup?

    thanks
    mike

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  • From michael dombrowski@ab1244@yahoo.com to comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware on Wed Sep 24 20:27:30 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware

    On Tue, 7 Jan 2025 20:16:37 -0600
    Louis Ohland <ohland@charter.net> wrote:

    I'll watch your efforts from afar.

    michael dombrowski wrote:
    Another Lacuna question... There is at least some PS/2 support for
    XT-IDE (See McIDE). I have a 76i, and it has a 3c529 with a boot ROM socket. I've tried the McIDE firmware, as well as the two official
    XT-IDE firmwares labeled "ps2", but I can't seem to get the system
    to use the boot rom. I set a ROM location using the REF disk. Is
    there more magic to this? Is there a known PS/2-compatible boot ROM
    that I can use to test my setup?

    thanks
    mike


    I was able to achieve success with getting XTIDE to live in a 529: https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/ibm-ps-2-mca-and-xt-ide.1251073/#post-1467078

    I feel there is some nuance I am missing, but given that it works I'm
    just going to roll with it

    mike

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