16 May
2006
16 May
'06
6:43 a.m.
On 5/15/2006 at 8:14 PM C. H. Dickman wrote:
I cracked it open and replaced the hard drive with one
of about the same
vintage and still no go. Further research indicates that it only works
with 3 very specific drives, although I don't know what those are other
than the CP3044.
My Grid 1040 shows the following 3 DPT entries:
612 cylinders, 2 heads, 17 sectors/head
612 cylinders, 4 heads, 17 sectors/head
612 cylinders, 2 heads, 34 sectors/head
IOW, 20 MB, 40 MB and 40 MB.
Is is possible to load a driver to access other types of disks? Maybe, but
Grid hard disk controllers are in a world of their own. At least they're
not at the standard port addresses.
Cheers,
Chuck