WD1007WAH/AMI BIOS/HK 386 clone

Tim Sailer tim at timstn.UUCP
Thu Jun 7 10:26:21 AEST 1990


clewis at eci386.uucp (Chris Lewis) writes:

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>ROM low-level formatter seemed to format the drive perfectly.
>Light flicker on drive and all.  But attempting to use FDISK returns
>"seek error - can't access C: drive" or hangs the system.
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I've found that you have to set the bios for drive type 1, or pick the
built in drive type that matched exactly the heads, and the closest
on the cylinders, ignoring the sector setting. Then low-level and fdisk.



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