no rom basic

From: jpero_at_cgocable.net <(jpero_at_cgocable.net)>
Date: Sun Feb 7 18:03:50 1999

Date sent: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 15:46:08 -0800
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From: "F. Paul Passmore III" <fpp_at_concentric.net>
To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers" <classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Subject: RE: no rom basic
Originally to: "'classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu'" <classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>

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> Hi,
> Just a few possibilities.=20
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> Some hard drives will cause the above message if the 0 track has been =
> altered (written over) linux is well know for this and the only way I =
> know to resolve this is to low level format the drive. A lot of 386 and =
> early 486 Award BIOS machines have an option of hard drive utility. If =
> you do you're all set. I chose a 3 for the interleave value.

Do NOT EVER dump that junk on mailing list, Paul E. Passmore III!
Some don't have capacity to read or are paying per call or time
online. Please just text email, if you want to someone to have a
software point it where everybody can download it off the 'net.

And please don't take this word that Paul suggested to LLF a
modern hd to fix like this! Do:

Boot up with DOS bootable disk complete with:
fdisk, format, edit/qbasic set and sys.

startup fdisk to delete all the old partitions, put new parititon as
needed, make it active if needed and let it write to hd. It will next
reboot the machine itself. That step 1 done, next step 2 is to
format it by: format c:/u/s.
If it doesn't boot up by itself on the HD, do this: boot with disk
again, do fdisk /mbr
still dead, try sys c:

This process works very well on IDE drives and I have changed
Linux in and out for another OSes easily.

MFM, RLL, ESDI drives needs to be LLF'ed to work properly when
marrying a "stranger" to a controller card for first time.
SCSI and IDE very rarely requires LLF.

Jason D.
Received on Sun Feb 07 1999 - 18:03:50 GMT