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Help needed with error message

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From: {Darkavich}
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 1990 15:04
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I have an AT motherboard (MBVLSI-166) 
I am using a western digital WA5 and a fujitsu M2227D hard drive.

I am not able to low level format the drive with this controller card.
I can low level it with a WA2 and then switch the WA5 back in the machine
and can use the drive.  My problem is that no matter which controller card
I use I get this error message on boot-up.

NO ROM BASIC
SYSTEM HALTED

I have fdisked the drive and formated with system files.  I can take the
drive and put in another machine and it boots.  My theory is that the
controller cards from western digital are not compatable with this
motherboard.

The mystery deepends.  If I remove the drive from set-up I get no-system
disk in drive A:.  Just what you would expect.  If I put the drive back in
the set-up it behaves like it is trying to boot and then gets the error
message.  So, I cann't say 100% if it is the card or not.

Has anyone encountered this problem?  I know what the error message means 
but no idea how to fix it.  

Thanks in advance,

	Steve Misrack
	steve@ucsd.edu
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