Hi Brenton,
            it's a cruel and wicked world.

  I had it working like a charm last night, so this morning I decided
to try one last thing: use address 170 with IRQ10, and it didn't work,
so I tidied it up and put it back the way it was last night using 1E8,
IRQ11 and that didn't work either!

  Aaarrrgh!

  So I buggered around for an hour checking everything and finally
convinced myself I had it wired right, but it doesn't work. The
HIT-IDE searches until it gets to 1E8/11 and leaves a blank. It is
doing something queer! Normally it says: "No CD found or drive is not
CD"... or if it finds one it names the CD. Now i leaves a blank!

  So I changed the cable, and then I changed the IDE card for the
really old one, making the A3/A4 swap modification and adding IRQ11,
and that worked. Perfectly... except that the floppy was totally
confused by the wrong addresses. I spent another hour trying to find a
way to disable the floppy but it all goes into that bloody PAL-thingie
and I'm rooted.

  I must have rooted the ISA card! It's not a particularly high
quality card (in fact it's awful) and something has gone cronk. The
only other thing I can do, is put it back to normal and see if it
works that way, but I'm getting a bit nervous about the number of
times I've pulled these cards in and out of the motherboard.

  Bummer!

Regards,
Bob
 
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