Tandy 2800HD fails to boot

[smp]

I dug my Tandy2800HD put of storage (it worked fine back when it went into storage!) but it doesn't boot up. Invalid setup. What a surprise. When I tried to get into the BIOS setup, I couldn't. With a bit of reading of the documents I have, I now remember that the program SETUP_28 is on the HD, not in the BIOS chip. How to get to it if the system does not boot up onto the HD? I dug out my trusty 3.5 inch MSDOS boot disks for 3.3, 5.0 and 6.0. Nope. the floppy drive makes a noise like it's pulling the head back to track 0, but it doesn't work either.

Am I doomed? Is my only option disassembly and parts swapping now?

Your thoughts and advice are welcome.

Thanks for listening!

smp

 

[Paralel]

Your floppy probably needs to have its band replaced, its on the underside of the drive. Once you do that, you need to boot a disk that has the setup program on it, run it, tell it what kind of HDD is in there, and it will boot off the HD again.

 

[smp]

Thanks Paralel.

Looks like some disassembly is in my future.

smp