Am 19.07.2014 23:08, schrieb Enrico Lazzerini:
I managed to find a bios for an IBM 5170 AT 286 Type1
Mainboard. It is
here: 30aprile1989 (list here:
http://ibm-pc.org/firmware/ibm/5170/5170.htm)
In practice I have manually added the number of cylinders, heads, and sect
/ trk that allow the machine to recognise a disk IBM 250MB. At this point
regularly boots DOS.
But I wish to program these data permanently in the bios. Does anyone know
what program to use and give me the procedure? I tried with BIOSUTL, but
the new EPROM do not boot the machine.
With BIOSUTL i made what follow: read actual BIOS, you can add new disk
geometry parameters at free 47 position, then you have to recalculate bios
checsum, then BIOSUTIL devides BIOS into EVEN and ODD file so i can finally
program them into two 27256 150nS eprom.
Thank you
Enrico
Hi..
the biosutil maybe one way. The version I use told me:
Biosutil V1.1
InfoMatrix Bios utilities for the AT BIOS.
Brad Gibson Copyright (C) 1990 by Secret Software
and I believe there's no other version.
here is an other way.
You can easily ad an enhanced bios if you have an free rom place in a
network card like a ISA 3com etherlink.
Look here for
https://code.google.com/p/xtideuniversalbios/
The xtide bios works on most xt/at.
Greetings
fritz