jon@nucleus.mi.org (Jon Block) (12/10/90)
I am having a great amount of difficulty in adding a second hard disk to my system. The configuration is as follows: Micronics Motherboard 386/20 w/8MB ram Western Digital RLL Controller WD1006V-SR2 Seagate 65MB Hard Drive ST277R Seagate 122MB Hard Drive ST4144R I can use either drive as drive 0. I have formatted both using the controller BIOS and the Interactive formatting program, as it appears that I first have to do a low level format with the BIOS, then format under unix, then reset the drive type with the controller BIOS ( should I really have to do this ). When I tried to add the second hard drive, using the sysadm menus, after answering the questions, the drive light comes on, and stays on forever ( or at least as long as I could wait :-) ). At this point I had to reboot in order to use the machine again. I then tried to add the disk manually, but this seemed to have a problem at the point I ran mkpart. Same symptoms, red light goes on, wait for the heat death of the universe. I would really like to get the extra 65MB, as it would make some development projects much easier. Any help would be greatly appreciated. P.S. - I also configured the HPDD, just in case, although it seems this shouldn't be neccessary.
kyung@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Kyung Lee) (12/20/90)
Hi everyone, sorry to waste the bandwidth, but I need some help... Does anyone happen to own a 286-12Mhz motherboard Manufactured by suntac?? I just bough their motherboard second handed, but it did not come with any docs, I need to know what these 8 dip switches are for and where I should insert these DRAMs...it's 6 row by 6 column sockets not a normal 4 row by 9 column. Really appreciate it.
ezor@bnet.UUCP (Chris patton) (05/13/91)
I have a STARWRITER printer without manuals or software, so I
don't have a driver nor can I get the switches set. Does anyone know
anything about them or how to get in contact with the company that
makes or distributes them???
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