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- From: mcia@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Mike Ciaraldi)
- Subject: Re-installing a Hardcard II XL 105
- Message-ID: <1993Jan13.032617.16318@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Keywords: Plus Quantum Hardcard
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- Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 93 03:26:17 GMT
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- I just bought a Gateway 2000 486 DX/2-66, which is working fine.
- The standard drive is a 340-Meg IDE.
- I want to move the Hardcard from the old machine to the new one.
-
- I moved the drive, and just copied the ATDOSXL.SYS driver file to the
- root directory of the C drive, and added the line
- DEVICE=\ATDOSSL.SYS
- to my CONFIG.SYS file, and rebooted.
-
- The driver doesn't indicate an error at boot time, but trying to
- access the D-drive gives the message "invalid drive specificiation".
-
- I tried QA-Plus, which is a diagnostic package. It indicated
- that the memory area C800-C9FF was recognized as ROM
- (that's where the hardcard has its ROM).
- It shows the IRQ 11 assigned to the second hard drive,
- It even lists the second drive as 109Meg.
- But I can't access the disk under DOS!
-
- One last thing--I tried re-installing the driver software,
- but it just gives errors.
- During the installation procedure, it thinks the drive is 1 G-byte.
- If I continue anyway, it says there is a read or write error
- on the drive.
- I was using the 1.50 version of the software,
- but I got a copy of 1.70, and that has the same problem.
-
- Anybody got any ideas?
- Or if not, do you have Plus's technical support number?
-
- Mike Ciaraldi
- University of Rochester
- mcia@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
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