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Article #18923Re: HOW DO I ADD A 1.44MB FD TO A PC'S LIMITED (AKA DELL) 286 ?
From: Massoud Ajami
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 19:43
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 19:43
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In article <1993Jan4.205019.11185@seer.gentoo.com> ccowboy@seer.gentoo.com (Sharif Torpis) writes: >From: ccowboy@seer.gentoo.com (Sharif Torpis) >Subject: HOW DO I ADD A 1.44MB FD TO A PC'S LIMITED (AKA DELL) 286 ? >Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:50:19 GMT > > I have a 80286-based system from 1987 made by PC's Limited. I believe >this is the company that eventually became Dell. I am trying to add a 1.44 MB >FD to this system. However, after running the reconfiguration utility and >telling it that I now have a "HIGH CAPACITY" drive, the system fails to boot >and prints the error message "MISMATCH". Do I need a new FDHD controller card? >Or do I need a new BIOS from Dell? Does anyone have experience with this >model hardware? > >ccowboy@gentoo.com > Yes, you need to ask for ROM upgrade. They give you the ROMs and new keyboard controller. You can use different ROM, but you will lose the "smart vu" display and machine will work fine. -- Peace and Prosperity! ---==< 110 >==---
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wupost!usc!newshub.sdsu.edu!chemteca.sdsu.edu!massoud From: massoud@chemteca.sdsu.edu (Massoud Ajami) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: HOW DO I ADD A 1.44MB FD TO A PC'S LIMITED (AKA DELL) 286 ? Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:43:09 GMT Organization: San Diego State University Lines: 23 Message-ID: <massoud.173.726262989@chemteca.sdsu.edu> References: <1993Jan4.205019.11185@seer.gentoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.191.227.22