[comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware] Hard Drive in Vanilla PC

hafey@capitol.com (Rob Hafey) (06/18/91)

I am having problems installing a hard drive in an original IBM-PC.  I am using
a XTGEN controller card with a micropolis 20mb drive.  The drive low-level
formats fine,  I can do an fdisk on the drive, but when I try to format the
drive it says "INSERT DISK IN DRIVE C: AND RETURN TO CONTINUE" (or something
like that) and then when I hit return the drive responds with "DRIVE NOT READY".Unfortunely I do not have the original docs for the PC but I believe that the
DIP switch settings may be wrong.  The guy I bought the PC from used to have
an RLL drive in there and he said he had to configure the machine so there were
no fixed disks.  

Thanks in advance 

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 Rob Hafey
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