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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!dcatlas!joet
- From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
- Subject: Re: ANYONE please help me with a hard drive question,
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.154424.3798@dcatlas.dot.gov>
- Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
- References: <1hu0qgINNht4@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 15:44:24 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- ah157@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Rob Henry) writes:
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- >I have a seagate st251 hard drive and an 8 bit western digital
- >control card.
- >I was told this card will not work on an 80286 because it is 8 bit,
- >is this true?
-
- No.
-
- >I also get a post error when i have the drive and card plugged in,does
- >this mean the card is bad?
-
- No. Tell the BIOS you have NO hard drive installed; the ROM on the 8-bit
- card will take care of it.
-
- >My computer acts like it can't see the drive,for example,when i type
- >fdisk it says i need a hrd drive to sue that command.
-
- That's because it cannot see the drive defined in the BIOS, because it does
- not exist.
-
- >I have it configured in my bios and all also.
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- /TILT/, there's the problem.
-
- >Please leave mail,all help is appreciated.
-
- More details in email...
-
- -JTT
-