Help! Grid 1535 EXP

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bbtel.com>
Date: Thu Jul 30 17:15:57 1998

Try the "translated" parameters of 977 cyl / 5 hd / 17 spt for that drive
since your controller is restricted to drives under 1024 cyl's.

Joe wrote:

> I tried removing the hard drive and connecting it to a PC in order to
> reload everything as Doug sugested. The drive is a Conner CP-3044 (2 heads
> 1047 cylinders, 42 Mb IDE). MS-DOS chokes on anything over 1024 cylinders
> so I tried to run it on the PC with the cylinders set at 1024 and 1047 but
> the system said "Drive 0: initialization failure" every time. Does anyone
> know what drive geometry the Grid uses? I don't *think* the drive is
> actually bad since I got past this point with the drive installed in the
> Grid. Will the Grids boot from the external floppy drive? If so, does
> anyone have one that I can borrow long enough to reload DOS and FastLynx?
>
> Joe

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