Re: Hard Drive Question

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From: erikc
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 00:00

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On 12 Oct 1997 15:46:46 GMT
"Jim Flanagan" <jflan@gte.net>
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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

Get rid of the thing and get a more up to date model.

PRR



Erikc Ag #2                  |   "An Fhirinne in aghaidh an tSaoil." 
                             |        "The Truth against the World."
                             |                               -- Bardic Motto

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Subject: Re: Hard Drive Question
Date: 1997/10/12
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