Gregory's Serverboom! that did the trick! except now the floppy drive isn't working so i can't put in the reference disk 🙃
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 ugh. i have this same issue with another Type 4 complex I have (486DX2-66). this is probably logic analyzer time now :blobsweats:  @tubetime logic analyser time is always a good time! 😅 Best of luck, tho! <3 the floppy controller chip (upper left) doesn't natively support MCA bus, so the chip in the middle (U26) implements that for it. Specifically, U26 uses an external open-drain buffer (U37, bottom) to drive the ARB lines. but it *senses* those same ARB lines with 4 separate pins. [most likely U26 is a semicustom gate array with a limited number of possible open-drain outputs] my theory is that for some reason, U26 (85F0464) isn't working correctly and is driving 0 onto the arbitration bus when it means to drive 2. so it thinks that it has lost arbitration, but it actually won it. then it hangs in a halfway state, and the DMA controller throws the timeout error (presumably by asserting NMI). @tubetime always felt weird that even on IBM hardware that supports it, that OS/2 cant do an ACPI soft shutdown. Even OS/2 4.52  @tubetime Half a warped OS... The whole IBM fumbling the Star Trek thing with OS/2 and the Warp name silliness was pretty amusing. @tubetime I like that as a concept. Simple and elegant without any state machine complexity. |
floppy drive issue seems to be this leaky electrolytic capacitor. it was working before, so i guess it must have been slowly degrading.