Need IBM XT/286 Setup disk

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Thu Mar 8 09:43:39 2001

At 06:33 PM 3/3/01 +0000, Tony wrote:

>THe IBM PC/AT assumes that drive A: is a 5.25" 1.2Mbyte drive after a
>CMOS RAM reset. It will boot from either a 360K or 1.2M disk in this
>drive.
>

    I tried a 360k boot disk in the XT/286 and it won't boot with the CMOS
erased. I think I tried a 1.2Mb boot disk also with the same results.
However I did get it booted with the setup disk that Don sent. There was a
delay becuase the 1.2Mb drive in my main computer didn't want to make a
good disk. I finally pulled one of the 360k drives out of the XT/286 and
installed it in my main computer and used it. After that no more problems
making disks.

    After I got the XT/286 CMOS setup I tried to read the hard drive but it
turns out that the drive is bad. RATS! I was hoping to find software for
the STAG EPROM programmers still on it. That's the only reason that I
picked the machine up. Well, I'll save the floppy drives out of it and
pitch the rest of it.

   Thanks for your help everyone.

     Joe
Received on Thu Mar 08 2001 - 09:43:39 GMT