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by soydemadrid
Wed Jun 03, 2020 8:48 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Help with External Drives please, and booting Externally from MOS
Replies: 6
Views: 5283

Re: Help with External Drives please, and booting Externally from MOS

Hi, A "thinking outside the box solution" (which you will therefore perhaps regard as no solution at all!) would be to jumper your internal drive to be e drive 1,2 or 3) - this is quite easy, certainly on the original Einstein - and jumper your external drive to be drive 0. I did something similar ...
by soydemadrid
Tue Jun 02, 2020 2:51 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Help with External Drives please, and booting Externally from MOS
Replies: 6
Views: 5283

Re: Help with External Drives please, and booting Externally from MOS

I can’t help, but I’d love to,know how you connected it to your 256 :) Hi thanks, using this kit as either internal or external drive. For external all that is needed is a dual ribbon cable, ie it has 3 connectors on - one for the motherboard then two further down the ribbon for the two drives. Als...
by soydemadrid
Mon Jun 01, 2020 1:46 pm
Forum: Hardware
Topic: Help with External Drives please, and booting Externally from MOS
Replies: 6
Views: 5283

Help with External Drives please, and booting Externally from MOS

Hi everyone - I have a Tatung Einstein 256 and I could just do with a bit of help on MOS. Basically I fitted a second drive as a Gotek just so I could keep my original machine's built in 3" drive original (as it is still in good working condition). The problem is how do you boot DOS or anything else...