AT&T 6300 PC

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Tue Oct 17 15:45:43 2000

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Tarsi wrote:

>
> >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.

There is a good possibility that you can find it at:

                    http://theref.aquascape.com

                                                 - don

 
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