jimr@applix.com (Jim Rouleau [ext 256]) (01/25/91)
I have an XT clone with a high density floppy controller
(generic, 360K & 1.44M drives) which works fine. Then I bought an
ST250R hard drive and a Western Digital WD1004-27X controller card
to upgrade. When I try to low-level format, it seems to work but
at the end the message 'Nothing Done. Exiting' appears and returns
me to A> prompt. FDISK won't recognize the drive and if I try any
diagnostic software that won't work either .. seek fails. I have
sent back the controller card, the hard drive (twice) and the
motherboard! Everyone says that there stuff is OK and to talk to
the other guy. The motherboard dealer said there might be an
address conflict using a high density controller in an XT and that
I should select a different address. The controller has 4 settings:
controller: 320-323 324-327 328-32B 32C-32F
bios: C8000-C9FFF CA000-CBFFF CC000-CDFFF CE000-CFFFF
but trying these produced no fruit. (I can't change the address
arbitrarily though, right?) I've tried using IRQ2 and IRQ5 (I
believe that one is AT related and the other XT, but don't
remember which or how and can't find the info anywhere.) I don't
do this for a living (obviously!) but I am at the end of resources.
Help Please!?