29 Jul
1998
29 Jul
'98
3:17 p.m.
At 08:20 PM 7/29/98 -0500, you wrote:
I didn't notice a ring. They were cigarette size boxs and marked "Grid
120" and had a connector at one end.
Joe
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Joe wrote:
I tried holding down the R key and a bunch of others with no effect. The
error message that I'm getting says "No System file". I'm afraid the
hard
drive has been erased. I don't have an external drive, is there anyway to
restore the system files without the external drive?
supply yesterday and fired it up today. It has a
plasma display but I need
to find out how to get into the setup.
There is no BIOS-level setup in ROM. You probably have DOS in ROM. Try
holding down the 'R' key during the boot. If you get into DOS, look for a
program named CONFIG or something similar. Things like drive geometry are
hard-coded in the BIOS. I also found a some GRID 120 plug in hard
drives. I don't think they fit
the 1535 though or if they do I don't know how to install them.
The number doesn't ring a bell. They're defintely not for the 1535,
though. If they have a sort-of key ring thing on the end, they may be for
the 1537 (TEMPEST model).
-- Doug
29 Jul
29 Jul
6:04 p.m.
On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Joe wrote:
I tried holding down the R key and a bunch of others
with no effect. The
error message that I'm getting says "No System file". I'm afraid the
hard
drive has been erased. I don't have an external drive, is there anyway to
restore the system files without the external drive?
Hmm, 'R' right after power-up should let you boot from whatever's in ROM.
If that doesn't work, you might try either taking the hard disk out and
accessing it from another box, or put a SCSI or floppy controller in your
expansion box and try booting from another device ('F' would force a
floppy boot, but I don't know if that works from the expansion tray).
I didn't notice a ring. They were cigarette size
boxs and marked "Grid
120" and had a connector at one end.
Those sound like the removable hard drives from my GRiD 1810, one of the
made-in-Japan plastic GRiDs.
-- Doug
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