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- From: aland@informix.com (Colonel Panic)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: Help w/ WD1007A
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.061607.8066@informix.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 06:16:07 GMT
- References: <1992Dec25.202407.4377@eng.umd.edu>
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- Organization: Helen Keller Bondurant's Performance Driving School for the Blind
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- In article <1992Dec25.202407.4377@eng.umd.edu> sdorsey@eng.umd.edu (Bill Dorsey) writes:
- >system now boots up and recognizes the floppy drive just fine. But I'm
- >getting nowhere with the hard drive.
- >
- >There are a multitude of configuration jumpers present on the board. I've
- >played around with a few of them, in the hopes of activating the on-board
- >ROM so I can run the hard drive setup utility which should be present there.
-
- Is there a ROM installed? They're optional (I've never seen one, myself).
- If so, you can activate it by entering G=C800:5 at the DEBUG prompt.
-
- >If anyone has the manual for one of these cards, or knows how to set one
- >up, I'd appreciate any pointers you might be able to provide. Shooting in
- >the dark for hours on end as I've been doing so far gets frustrating real
- >fast... I think all I need to know is how to activate the ROM present on
- >the card and the address of the setup utility in the ROM so I can execute
- >it from the debug utility.
-
- Here's the default jumpering to start with:
-
- W1 2-3
- W2 2-3
- W3 Jumper present
- W4 No Jumper present
- W5 No Jumper present
- W6 2-3
- W7 1-2
- W8 No Jumper present
- W9 No Jumper present
- W10 No Jumper present
- W11 Jumper present
- W12 No Jumper present
- W13 (Trace)
- W14 No Jumper present
- W15 No Jumper present
-
- >Happy Holidays.
- >sdorsey@eng.umd.edu
-
- Hope this helps.
-
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- Alan Denney aland@informix.com {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland
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