IBM Portable PC and a scsi drive (john Ball) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

8 Apr 2007

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 There are two unpopulated sockets on my two T130Bs. 
One is a 20-pin DIP, 
which I suspect is probably something like an LS374 and the other is the 
boot ROM.  For yucks, I'd love a snapshot of the ROM and affirmation of 
what the other upopulated socket is.  In return, I could verify that your 
setup's right. 
The URL below links to a photograph

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/T130B.j…

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 Do you know it's a) working and b) low-level
formatted to 512 bytes/sector? 
A) yes B) no

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 I suspect DOS might just query the fact that
there's a drive there, without any knowledge of whether it'd be capable of
reading/writing data.

???

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 I assume the ROM on the SCSI board is taking over
control of the system 
boot - and probably has no knowledge that BASIC is actually lurking in the 
host system's ROM. If you get to the point of being able to boot DOS from a 
SCSI disk, I bet there's a way to hop into the system's on-board BASIC via 
the DOS debug program... 
Well I gurss I have no choice but to get to basic through DOS. It means 
lugging an extra disk but I'll do anything to get the onboard BASIC.

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