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I purchased a Talon TA200, alias Texel 5024, with a Trantor T130B card. When installed in my 486 DOS clone I found that it would not work. I could get it installed as drive E:. I could copy a small file from E: to a hard disk. If I tried to run an install program on the CD, or if I tried to copy a large file from the CD to my hard drive, the whole system would hang up. The big red button was required to restart my system. I tried the card and drive combination on another PC, in case the problem was with my clone, and got the same result. I bought the drive from Insight, and their tech support could not suggest anything execpt to exchange the Trantor card for a Future Domain card. Instead I tried a Toshiba CD Rom drive, which we happened to have, in place of the Texel, and everything worked just fine. So I assumed that it must be the Texel drive. I returned the drive and got another Texel. That made no difference. I called Trantor Tech support, and they said that as long as I had driver version 1.46f it should work. We went through a complete set up with them, and in the end they said that they would have to go back to their engineering , and would get back to me in couple of days. Two weeks later I chased them up and they then said they do not yet support dual speed drives ! I would have to wait to mid February for new drivers. But I see other people advertising the Texel 3024, which I think is the internal verison of 5024, with the Trantor 130B. Has anyone got a Texel 5024 to work with a Trantor 130B card ?