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Omti HD controller prooblem

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From: Frank Moehle
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 17:01
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Hello world of the net,

A while ago i dug out my dad's old Commodore PC-10 and decided to make it
become an AT. I have found a 8/10 Mhz AT motherboard and mamadged to
make all the old hardware work with it, except for the most important
thing :
The harddisk, an old Olivetti HD with 20 MB and connected to the computer
by an OMTI - controller, refuses to work. In fact, I can get the directory
of the HD if I boot from a floppy, but if I want to start any program,
I get something like a "SEEK ERROR" and the loading is aborted.
The omti controller has a lot of jumpers, does anybody know what they meen
and how to set them correctly ? In the old XT, none of them was set.
Is it possible to use the old Controller and Harddisk without re-formatting ?
(There is important data on this HD)


Thanx for any kind of help,

Frank.

PS : please reply via e-mail, I usually don't read this group.
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From: Frank.Moehle@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Frank Moehle)
Subject: Omti HD controller prooblem
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:01:29 GMT
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