Mike Chambers
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okay, today i finally found and picked up an ISA FDD/HDD controller that works on my "TURBO-XT" 8088 machine. it's a 16-bit SIIG card but it seems to work fine on the 8-bit bus.
i am able to boot up MS-DOS disks and get to the prompt no problem. now, my question is this: since there is no interactive BIOS setup of any kind on that thing, how do i access an HDD from MS-DOS since i don't have anywhere to tell the machine the drive info like cyls, heads, and sectors? DOS can't pick up this information automatically, right?
it's an IBM 256 MB drive from about 1993.
any clue? thanks!
-mike
i am able to boot up MS-DOS disks and get to the prompt no problem. now, my question is this: since there is no interactive BIOS setup of any kind on that thing, how do i access an HDD from MS-DOS since i don't have anywhere to tell the machine the drive info like cyls, heads, and sectors? DOS can't pick up this information automatically, right?
it's an IBM 256 MB drive from about 1993.
any clue? thanks!
-mike