dmc@ntcsd1.UUCP (David Clemens) (12/14/88)
I have a problem...
I am currently working with a Compaq 386 that initially had two disk
drives and a 20M hard disk running off of a Winchester controller card.
We are currently trying to upgrade the hard disk to a 122M Seagate drive
which came with it's own controller card, a Western Digital 1003-RAH.
Now... the problem is that the Western Digital card doesn't support the
floppy drives and the Winchester doesn't support the new hard disk, so we
have to make the two cards work together. The Winchester controller is
running the disk drives perfectly, the computer succesfully boots up with
a system disk. However, when we try an FDISK it returns a message saying that
no fixed disks are attached. We also tried to use Disk Manager, but it says that
there is a hardware error on the controller card or the disk.
I beleive that the software is looking on the Winchester card for the fixed
disk and is returning the error message. Can anybody out there tell me how
to get around this problem?
Thanx in advance...
David Clemens
Disclaimer: The above ideas were the result of the head-on collision of two
apparently random thought processes in the lower portion of my brain.
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