On 29/11/97 9:04 am Larry Macy said
>Yea I know it's a DOS question but I have to impress the boss with my
>prowess.
>
>Scenario:
>Off brand Intel DX2, 400 MB C: drive, CD ROM, 8 MB RAM. I need to install
>a 1.7 Seagate ST31720A. 1.7 MB, best I can do is a 504MB D: drive and I
>loose the CD. I suspect the BIOS cannot handle this. American Megatrends
>1992 - 1993. Used fdisk from dos 6.20 and 6.22 and the BIOS driver.
>Started out wih 20MB and now have 504. This is a 1.7 GB drive. It is
>installed as a D: (slave) drive. Startup is a Western Digital 400 MB w/
>dos 6.20. Win 3.1 with Norton desktop (which I forgot how to kill, tired
>the win.ini and the system.ini??)
>Lets see, what else, 8MB RAM, Soundblaster card, MS Mouse driver. Tried
>all the built in formatting options.
>
>Help??
>
>On A Mac - just set the SCSI ID and go.
Good gracious, why do people buy PCs when they've got to suffer all this
gobbledegook?? Get a Mac and get a life!! :-)))
Philip Raby
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