lenny@alps.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) (08/24/89)
Help! Firstly I don't get these groups downstream here, so reply
via mail...
I'm trying too hook up a 20mb hard drive for a co-worker, who
has a very old IBM PC (real IBM, with built-in BASIC). Basically
it had two full height 360K floppy drives, I removed one, removed
a serial board and put a XT-GEN disk controller in it's place. The
20MB 1/2 height Miniscribe 3425 is put where drive B: would have been.
I hooked up the cables (how I think they are supposed to be) and
went at it... Booted MSDOS, ran DEBUG and typed:
-g=c800:5
At that time it ran the firmware low-level routine. I entered 3:1
interleave, and then said I was dynamically formatting the drive.
I then entered the cylinders (which I forget right now), the heads,
and padded the rest of the values which I didn't know.
Each and every time I tried this I got:
Error - Completion code 01
Insert DOS disk in drive A:
Press any key to continue
Help! Help!
Thanks,
Lenny
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