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- From: massoud@chemteca.sdsu.edu (Massoud Ajami)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: HOW DO I ADD A 1.44MB FD TO A PC'S LIMITED (AKA DELL) 286 ?
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:43:09 GMT
- Organization: San Diego State University
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- Message-ID: <massoud.173.726262989@chemteca.sdsu.edu>
- References: <1993Jan4.205019.11185@seer.gentoo.com>
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- In article <1993Jan4.205019.11185@seer.gentoo.com> ccowboy@seer.gentoo.com (Sharif Torpis) writes:
- >From: ccowboy@seer.gentoo.com (Sharif Torpis)
- >Subject: HOW DO I ADD A 1.44MB FD TO A PC'S LIMITED (AKA DELL) 286 ?
- >Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:50:19 GMT
- >
- > I have a 80286-based system from 1987 made by PC's Limited. I believe
- >this is the company that eventually became Dell. I am trying to add a 1.44 MB
- >FD to this system. However, after running the reconfiguration utility and
- >telling it that I now have a "HIGH CAPACITY" drive, the system fails to boot
- >and prints the error message "MISMATCH". Do I need a new FDHD controller card?
- >Or do I need a new BIOS from Dell? Does anyone have experience with this
- >model hardware?
- >
- >ccowboy@gentoo.com
- >
-
- Yes, you need to ask for ROM upgrade. They give you the ROMs and new
- keyboard controller. You can use different ROM, but you will lose the "smart
- vu" display and machine will work fine.
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- Peace and Prosperity!
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