It’s a formosa SC1616. I currently have two bridgeboard rigs, both running with that and a cf card ( sorry not sd as I mentioned earlier) connected to the IDE connector. The second system has got a vortex golden gate however, not an a2386. both are A2000, 1st system has a2630, picasso 2+a2320...
In order to get the drive on your soundcard bootable in DOS you can use a dynamic drive overlay software like ontrack. on the a2386 side you can boot from the ontrack floppy disc, the software recognizes the drive and sets it up for you. That way you also have bridgeboard tools like amouse...
Another way that saves you the slot for the controller is to use the primary IDE connector of a sound card, if it has got one that isn`t proprietary like sony, mitsumi etc. I have an sd card running on an ES1688 as I needed to save one slot and I was disappointed with the poor performance of the...
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