6500boo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (William Bushing) (05/22/91)
Here's dumb beginner question number 102748... I have an old (ancient?) Compaq Deskpro 8086 computer with a Seagate ST-225 20 Meg hard drive in it. I'm thinking of putting a Seagate ST-251-1 drive in but it suddenly dawned on me that I'm not sure how! I've replaced plenty of drives in AT and 386 machines with BIOS's accessible via SETUP. How does one inform the Compaq 8086 of a drive's configuration? I have never had to deal with the Compaq's innards other than a board put in shortly after I got the system in 1986 or so. Thanks for tips on how to proceed... or if I should (or can) proceed. Bill Bushing
py@meadow.uucp (Peter Yeung) (05/22/91)
In article <11478@hub.ucsb.edu> 6500boo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (William Bushing) writes: >Here's dumb beginner question number 102748... > >I have an old (ancient?) Compaq Deskpro 8086 computer with a >Seagate ST-225 20 Meg hard drive in it. I'm thinking of putting >a Seagate ST-251-1 drive in but it suddenly dawned on me that >I'm not sure how! I've replaced plenty of drives in AT and 386 >machines with BIOS's accessible via SETUP. How does one inform >the Compaq 8086 of a drive's configuration? I have never had to >deal with the Compaq's innards other than a board put in shortly >after I got the system in 1986 or so. Thanks for tips on how to >proceed... or if I should (or can) proceed. > Typical XT type controllers have dip switches for setting parameters of the drives being used. I guess your problem is to find the dip switch setting for the controller in your Compaq. May be you can try calling Compaq to see if they can provide the info. >Bill Bushing -- Peter Yeung Amdahl Canada Ltd., Software Development Center 2000 Argentia Road, Plaza 2, Suite 300 Mississauga, Ont. L5N 1V8 Phone: (416) 542-6300 Fax: (416) 858-2233
matth@progress.COM (Matthew J. Harper) (05/23/91)
py@meadow.uucp (Peter Yeung) writes: >In article <11478@hub.ucsb.edu> 6500boo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (William Bushing) writes: >>Here's dumb beginner question number 102748... >> >>I have an old (ancient?) Compaq Deskpro 8086 computer with a >>Seagate ST-225 20 Meg hard drive in it. I'm thinking of putting >>a Seagate ST-251-1 drive in but it suddenly dawned on me that >>I'm not sure how! I've replaced plenty of drives in AT and 386 >>machines with BIOS's accessible via SETUP. How does one inform >>the Compaq 8086 of a drive's configuration? I have never had to >>deal with the Compaq's innards other than a board put in shortly >>after I got the system in 1986 or so. Thanks for tips on how to >>proceed... or if I should (or can) proceed. >> About four years ago I installed an st251-1 in my Compaq Deskpro 8086. The disk came with Ontrak's Disk Manager software. Being a an adventurous novice, I did it all myself. Since Ontrak was what I had, that is what I used. It worked just fine , including the extra dmdrvr.bin that gets loaded in the config.sys since the disk had to be partitioned. (Dos 3.2). I don't know what version of DOS you are running with, so I cannot say for sure, but you will most likely need some wort of driver in the config.sys if your DOS version doesn't allow partitions > 32 Meg. The BIOS in my machine sees a "C" drive when I boot without the driver. That's it. Good luck, feel free to e-mail me if you have any questions. My mailer has some problems sometimes though, so if you don't get a reply in a couple of days, look here and I'll post it for you. Matth -- Matthew J. Harper UUCP: mit-eddie!progress!matth Progress Software Corp. Internet: matth@progress.com 5 Oak Park Disclaimer: My words & ideas, That's all. Bedford, MA 01730