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From:	"Christoph Fuchs" <christoph DOT fuchs AT surfway DOT de>
To:	<opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	RE:DRIVE
Date:	Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:57:31 +0100
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The "new" drive is a "Maxtor7080AT"; 85MB. I got the drive information
(jumper settings, heads etc. from the internet). The computer is a old 486
with 8MB RAM (I think it's a ESCOM PC, but I don't know that company..).
The pc boots with a diskette, if the old drive (sorry, I've no information
about that drive, I only konow that it has around 160MB) is set in as
master. If the Maxtor drive is in, the pc don't does anything, although a
boot diskette is in. Only the lights flash!

Starting with a diskette, I can format the old drive, but when I restart the
machine (with a diskette, otherwise it doesn't work - although I wrote a new
MBR) and change to C:\, it says: "unknown format...".
I can fdisk the drive, too. But when I restart the computer and start fdisk
again, it says something like "DAT16 FORMAT" although I formatted the
partition with DR-DOS FORMAT.COM.
First I wanted to install DR-DOS, because I wanted to connect the pc to
another computer with a cdrom drive in order to install WIN95 (I wanted to
create a dual boot -DR-DOS and WIN95-).
I tried it with MSDOS, too. The same result.
All the jumper settings are probably right, the red line of the IDE cable is
set to number 1 PIN.
Perhaps it's important to say that the machine has an AMI BIOS, 1992.
Thanks,

Christoph

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