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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!panix!schuster
- From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
- Subject: Re: Setting up XT DRIVES...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.225606.17661@panix.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 22:56:06 GMT
- Distribution: usa
- References: <1992Dec20.184027.24271@ra.msstate.edu>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC
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- In article <1992Dec20.184027.24271@ra.msstate.edu> jdz1@Ra.MsState.Edu (John D. Zitterkopf) writes:
- >HI,
- > I have been upgradeing an XT to AT machine {Not an easy task}. I took
- >the original 10 MEG Tandon drive and put it with the AT contoller and set the
- >whole machine up. We later upgraded to a 32MEG drive and As part of payment I
- >get the 10MEG HD. Now I will be putting this back into a XT machine and will
- >need to know the correct steps to reformat and make the drive work with the
- >XT. It will not be as easy to do as an AT since there is no CMOS or AT
- >Diagonistics. I SURE that all the equipment that I will be using is IBM
- >original and will work. The HD card is a Full lenght card with the following
- >Identifaction numbers:
- > IBM 1816101
- > IBM5004403
- > Made in the USA on MAY 16, '84.
- >
- >How would I format the drive? My guess would be the ROM VIA an address like
- >c800:????. Anyone know? What interleave would be the best?
-
- The first XT's has a XEBEC controller which had no ROM ... the HD support
- was in the XT BIOS. (Yes, virginia). The LLF required a series of port OUT
- commands via debug ... not a simple ROM jump. I've long since lost the code.
-
- Why don't you just use Disk Mangler?
-
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