8 Mar
2001
8 Mar
'01
1:43 a.m.
At 06:33 PM 3/3/01 +0000, Tony wrote:
THe IBM PC/AT assumes that drive A: is a 5.25"
1.2Mbyte drive after a
CMOS RAM reset. It will boot from either a 360K or 1.2M disk in this
drive.
I tried a 360k boot disk in the XT/286 and it won't boot with the CMOS
erased. I think I tried a 1.2Mb boot disk also with the same results.
However I did get it booted with the setup disk that Don sent. There was a
delay becuase the 1.2Mb drive in my main computer didn't want to make a
good disk. I finally pulled one of the 360k drives out of the XT/286 and
installed it in my main computer and used it. After that no more problems
making disks.
After I got the XT/286 CMOS setup I tried to read the hard drive but it
turns out that the drive is bad. RATS! I was hoping to find software for
the STAG EPROM programmers still on it. That's the only reason that I
picked the machine up. Well, I'll save the floppy drives out of it and
pitch the rest of it.
Thanks for your help everyone.
Joe