khl@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Kenneth H. Lee) (01/01/90)
Has anyone had any experience in getting the Western Digital hard disk/floppy disk controller WD1006V-MM2 to work with DTK 286 BIOS V3.25? I am trying to replace my WD1003-WA2 with the WD1006V-MM2. I keep getting "Fixed disk controller failure" whenever I try to boot the system up with the system configured for a hard disk. If I change the CMOS configuration to contain no hard drive, the system boots up fine with just the floppy drives. From what I have been told, this combination should work. V3.25 is the latest DTK 286 BIOS. Could this be a problem with the BIOS level? I'm not sure if the controller card is faulty or if I need a different BIOS chip set. Any pointers, etc. would be greatly appreciated. thanks/k Kenneth H. Lee khl@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu Columbia University rutgers!columbia!cunixf!khl 209 Watson, 612 West 115 Street khlcu@cuvmc.bitnet New York, NY 10025 (212) 854-8027
davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (01/02/90)
In article <1989Dec31.211539.6791@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> khl@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Kenneth H. Lee) writes: | I am trying to replace my WD1003-WA2 with the WD1006V-MM2. | | I keep getting "Fixed disk controller failure" whenever I try to boot | the system up with the system configured for a hard disk. If I change | the CMOS configuration to contain no hard drive, the system boots up | fine with just the floppy drives. First, did you set the drive type to one? If not, do so and continue. Otherwise, set to "no drive" and boot DOS, then run the low level format from the controller and set the drive type to one. Finally, I have occasionally seen this type of thing, and just rebooting with alt-cntl-del leads to a clean boot. Hope some of this is useful. -- bill davidsen - sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX davidsen@sixhub.uucp ...!uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen "Getting old is bad, but it beats the hell out of the alternative" -anon