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In article <1992Sep7.115648.29243@latcs1.lat.oz.au>, hill@latcs2.lat.oz.au
(Craig Hill) writes:
>I've just bought a new IDE hard drive but I am having a few troubles getting
>my system to recognise it.  From what I can tell, I should just plug it in,
>tell bios what it is and then format it - bingo, one new HDD.  The problem is
>I don't know how to tell BIOS what it is.  It is a type 47 drive which means
>I set the parameters myself but this is the problem, I can't work out how to
>change these options.  I can change it to type 47 but I cannot set the no. of
>tracks etc.  At boot up the BIOS says : 
>    386sx/82335 Modular BIOS Version 3.04(P24) #408D9.5 
>If you know anything about this Award BIOS and how to change this or even how
>to contact Award Software Inc. I would be eternally grateful.
>
>ps. If you know how to set a different Award BIOS it may be the same so any 
>information is gratefully accepted.
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>| Stop it, or you will go blind   |   Craig Hill                       |
>|     ( Reading that is! )        |         hill@latcs1.lat.oz.au      |
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Hi there !
 
This is going to be an off the topic answer for what your problem is..
I havd the same problem with an old system I had, I was trying to put in a new
MFM hard drive. and I did not know the HD's codes or anything.. So this is what
I did I got ahold of a disk called "Disk Manager" produced by Ontrack computer
systems Inc. 
Now what it does is formates your HD for you, and set your bios up
automatically for you to. (yes I had an award bios) So all I had to do was run
the program and it set it up for me, now that is for the Seagate Hard drive, I
am not sure if it will work on the IDE drives or not. But it might be worth
checking it out or finding something that runs the same...
 
I hope this helps you!!
 
Later Eh.
Raisin
From Calgary, Alberta, Canada Eh!