AT&T 6300 PC

From: Tarsi <tarsi_at_binhost.com>
Date: Tue Oct 17 13:19:50 2000

>The AT&T only supported certain geometries in their bios (they disabled
>the hard disk controller's bios rom in most machines).
>
>Some of us who retrofitted the hard disks had to upgrade the ROM's to
>the 1.43.

Ok, all this talk of hard disks on the ATT, I have a question, perhaps
someone has some insight:

When I boot my AT&T 6300, most of the time it finds the hard disk but then
returns a "ROM BASIC not found: Press Reset to restart." or something
similar. About one time in 10 does it actually find the hard drive. When
it does, it boots merrily from it.

What's up? Bad HD? How would I find the geometry of the disk (if I wanted
to reformat it) if it doesn't say it somewhere? It is, if I remember right
(I'm at work, have to look when I get home) an STS-232 drive.

Tarsi
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Received on Tue Oct 17 2000 - 13:19:50 BST