WD1006V-MM2 with DTK 286 BIOS V3.25

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From: Kenneth H. Lee
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1989 21:15

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Has anyone had any experience in getting the Western Digital hard
disk/floppy disk controller WD1006V-MM2 to work with DTK 286 BIOS V3.25?

I am trying to replace my WD1003-WA2 with the WD1006V-MM2.

I keep getting "Fixed disk controller failure" whenever I try to boot
the system up with the system configured for a hard disk.  If I change
the CMOS configuration to contain no hard drive, the system boots up
fine with just the floppy drives.

From what I have been told, this combination should work.  V3.25 is
the latest DTK 286 BIOS.

Could this be a problem with the BIOS level?  I'm not sure if the
controller card is faulty or if I need a different BIOS chip set.

Any pointers, etc. would be greatly appreciated.

thanks/k
Kenneth H. Lee				khl@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu
Columbia University			rutgers!columbia!cunixf!khl
209 Watson, 612 West 115 Street		khlcu@cuvmc.bitnet
New York, NY 10025			(212) 854-8027

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From: khl@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Kenneth H. Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: WD1006V-MM2 with DTK 286 BIOS V3.25
Keywords: DTK 286 BIOS v3.25, WD1006-MM2
Message-ID: <1989Dec31.211539.6791@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 31 Dec 89 21:15:39 GMT
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