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- From: mzhao@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Min Zhao)
- Subject: Re: Help needed with a hard drive and an old XT...
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:09:47 GMT
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- In article <Bxrz1J.58r@andy.bgsu.edu> jzawodn@bgsu.edu (jeremy zawodny) writes:
- > Okay, I need some really good advice here. I have been
- >working on a friend's XT, slowly tuning it up. In the course of
- >my work, I upgraded his operating system from DOS 3.2 or 3.3
- >(don't remember exactly which) to DOS 5.0. I should probably
- >tell you what his system is exactly before proceeding.
- >
- >Brand "PC-II"
- >8086 XT system (4.77 Mhz)
- >360k Floppy
- >Monochrome Video
- >No CMOS
- >1 Segate ST-225 MFM Configured as C:
- >1 Segate ST-251 MFM Configured as D:
- >512k Ram
- >
- > Because his system has no CMOS settings, a version of
- >Ontrack Disk Manager loaded off of drive c: to let the system
- >know there was a drive d:. This consists of files like
- >"DMDRVR.BIN" and "XBIOS.OVL", I think. Anyway, somewhere along
- >the line, those files were lost, and the system would only
- >recognize c:.
-
- You need to put the DMDRVR.BIN in your config.sys file, just add the
- line dev=dmdrvr.bin. Drive D is probably still there with no data lost.
- I assume you still have the Disk Manager floppy.
-
- >Jeremy Zawodny
- >
- >
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- >Jeremy Daniel Zawodny Computer Science Undergraduate
- > Bowling Green State University
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