holtt@nyssa.CS.ORST.EDU (Tim Holt) (09/22/90)
I've got a no-name AT clone with 1 40 meg drive partitioned to
drives C and D. It's got an AMI bios with a version 3+ (?).
Recently it came up with a checksum error in the setup proms, so
I reran the SETUP program, and the darn thing is convinced that
it has 2 physical drives. There isn't an option in SETUP to
specify the # of drives, it just asks what type of drive D is!
The problems begin (and end, I guess) when I boot up. It tries to
spin up D, and can't find it, so I have to sit for a minute or two
and wait for it to time out, then press F1 to continue.
How do I make the darn thing forget D! I tried taking the batteries
out that keep the setup info current, then left it powered down for
a while, but that didn't seem to do it. Any suggestions?
Also, I'd love to get more info on how the SETUP works. As with
some noname clones at bargain basement prices, I have no manual
to tell me how setup works, how to set up shadow ram/rom for video
and bios stuff, etc. Any suggestions for good books or magazine
articles?
Tim Holt
Oregon State University
Oceanography/(Geophysics)/Seismology
holtt@nyssa.cs.orst.edu
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holtt@jacobs.cs.orst.edutony@mcrsys.UUCP (Tony Becker) (09/23/90)
From article <20424@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>, by holtt@nyssa.CS.ORST.EDU (Tim Holt): > I've got a no-name AT clone with 1 40 meg drive partitioned to > drives C and D. It's got an AMI bios with a version 3+ (?). > > How do I make the darn thing forget D! I tried taking the batteries > out that keep the setup info current, then left it powered down for > a while, but that didn't seem to do it. Any suggestions? > Try drive type equal to '0' | Tony Becker MCRSYS Florida | mcrsys!tony no cute symbols, yet.
rothstei@aecom.yu.edu (Neil Rothstein) (09/24/90)
In article <8@mcrsys.UUCP>, tony@mcrsys.UUCP (Tony Becker) writes: > From article <20424@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>, by holtt@nyssa.CS.ORST.EDU (Tim Holt): > > I've got a no-name AT clone with 1 40 meg drive partitioned to > > drives C and D. It's got an AMI bios with a version 3+ (?). > > > > How do I make the darn thing forget D! I tried taking the batteries But it does have the virtual drive D: from the second partition. You would have to change the partition information (very carefully) with FDISK or Disk Manager if its a Seagate and uses DMDRV.BIN. I may have missed something as to why one would want to forget about the second partition/virtual drive. It doesn't really matter. On my own computer, I have four floppies, and the last two, added as devices are E: and F: after a 40Mb drive that thinks it is C: AND D:. ALso recently I installed a second hard drive on a friend's computer. She now has two drives, but two virtual drives each, so C: D: E: and F:.