7 Jul
2005
7 Jul
'05
1:44 a.m.
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 13:41:13 -0400
Richard Beaudry <richard.beaudry at gmail.com> wrote:
Hello all,
Believe it or not, I couldn't find this on google, so I humbly submit
it here....
Does anyone have a list of the built-in drive types from the original
IBM AT? I'd like the drive number, heads, cyls, and capacity if you
have the list. The setup program on the diagnostics disk only lets
you pick a type, but it does not tell you what the choices are...
Of course, I know that later computers came along with BIOSes that let
you see the drive types instead of picking one out of thin air, but I
don't know if these followed the AT choices...
As one suggestion, you do not need to use the original IBM Setup disk.
There are plenty of third-party MS-DOS utilties to do the AT Setup, and
I'm pretty certain some of them are more user friendly and include drive
topologies.
On this topic, I recently located an original IBM Monochrome monitor, so
for me it's now just a matter of pulling out the EGA Techref and
jumpering the IBM EGA card in my AT for EGA monochrome and plugging the
monitor and an original PC-AT 84 key keyboard in, and I can fire up the
AT I've been wanting to check out for over a year.