Topic: You want a (new) hard disk drive for your PC10/20-III?

[ruud]

Hallo allemaal,

The PC10-III and PC20-III are nice PC's but have one disadvantage: the used 8-bits ATA HDDs are rare very very rare. But there is a solution:
http://n8vem-sbc.pbworks.com/w/browse/#view=ViewFolder&param=XT-IDE
The software for this card : http://code.google.com/p/xtideuniversalbios/

I re-engineered the original BIOS, added some extras, increased the start-up time and replaced the onboard code for the original HDD by an (IMHO) improved own version. If interested, let me know!

[Blacklord]

That would be awesome! The original in mine is dead so I've replaced it with an RLL controller and drive but would like to free up the slot.

[ruud]

... but would like to free up the slot.

You still need a slot for the XT-IDE card. The reason why I replaced the original software for the HDD with the XT-IDE's one is because I have a weird idea: using the original HDD connector to attach the IDE drive. And that is not just the matter of another cable. Most of the hardware used on the XT-IDE board has to be used here as well. But so far it is only an idea. First I have to figure out what the hardware window of this connector is. If it is 16 bytes, fine. If it is 8 bytes, doable. Less: forget it.