geneb
Veteran Member
I post this for you guys to laugh at. It's just too good.
I got the AT re-assembled this evening after getting it all cleaned out. I dropped a 3GB IDE drive in it and booted OpenDOS 7 on it.
Formatting the drive gives me 50MB. WTF?
I spent the next couple of hours trying to figure out why on earth that drive (or any of the others!) wouldn't give me an accurate size.
It finally dawns on me that with a machine this old, you have to set the drive type for the fixed disk! No problem, right? Not a chance.
The setup disk I have steadfastly tells me that type 47 is reserved and won't allow me to change it. It's a type 1 board with an older ROM revision, so I'm pretty much SOL at this point.
I've got some new EPROMs coming so I'll just burn a set using the AMI BIOS images that have been mentioned here before. Hopefully they'll work with a type 1 board.
g.
I got the AT re-assembled this evening after getting it all cleaned out. I dropped a 3GB IDE drive in it and booted OpenDOS 7 on it.
Formatting the drive gives me 50MB. WTF?
I spent the next couple of hours trying to figure out why on earth that drive (or any of the others!) wouldn't give me an accurate size.
It finally dawns on me that with a machine this old, you have to set the drive type for the fixed disk! No problem, right? Not a chance.
The setup disk I have steadfastly tells me that type 47 is reserved and won't allow me to change it. It's a type 1 board with an older ROM revision, so I'm pretty much SOL at this point.
I've got some new EPROMs coming so I'll just burn a set using the AMI BIOS images that have been mentioned here before. Hopefully they'll work with a type 1 board.
g.