Visual 1050 hard drive setup - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

20 Dec 2011

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 On 12/19/2011 05:30 PM, Damien Cymbal wrote:
 > Does anybody have a Visual 1050 with hard drive setup?  I am looking  for any
doc/pointers on how to get a hard drive configured under CP/M for 
this system.
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 Thanks.

  I do have two of them with HD, haven't powered it for a little while so 
 memory is fuzzy.

 As I remember it used a different copy of the bios (boot disk) to 
 configure as the bios had to be aware of the hard drive.
 I can look at docs but powering it up would take weeks to get to as 
 other projects are in the forefront.

That's correct.  There is a special disk to set up the hard drive.   I 
think you have to have this disk in drive A in order to read the hard 
drive, I don't think one can simply boot a 1050 to harddrive.  I plan to 
work on this system over the next few months, I will document the process 
on my site when I do.  I also am knee-deep in projects at the moment.
Bill