Hard Drive Question

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From: Jim Flanagan
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 00:00

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I have an old 286 laptop (Sharp PC6220) which
contains a 20MB HD which recently died.  I can
buy a replacement 20MB drive  cheap enough but
is it possible to add a larger capacity drive if it is NOT
possible to change the bios hard drive parameters?
This model computer had the parameters hard coded and
one would have to modify the bios to implement a change.
Is there a workaround??  I thought that the OnTrack Disk 
Manager software had a way around this. (I don't have a copy
myself).  I would appreciate any viewpoints.... Jim

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From: "Jim Flanagan" <jflan@gte.net>
Subject: Hard Drive Question
Date: 1997/10/12
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