access to BIOS of DECpc - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

29 Oct 2004

...
 I feel a bit silly, but it was late last night is my
excuse.
"DECpc 320P" in Google gave a link to floppy images on a COMPAQ site.
I will try them this evening, but it is good to know that the DECpc
"knows" a limited number of hard disks.  If I can 'upgrade' to some
300 Mb of the 420 Mb capacity it is still better than the 40 Mb that
I have available at this point. 
Years ago, I found out what I thought to be sufficient info to
upgrade my 320P from the 40mb drive it had, to a 120mb I had
been able to obtain... apparently type 46 and type 47 in the
BIOS are user definable.  And I guess I didn't have all the
info, or I touched the wrong area because I essentially 'bricked'
my 320p.  It no longer boots.

If you do find out how to do it reliably, I'd be interested in
trying to fix it.

                                        Megan Gentry
                                        Former RT-11 Developer

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