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Article #43005Re: Dumpster diving pays off (no, really!)
From: Joubert John V.
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1990 01:50
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1990 01:50
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David, I have seen the method of booting from floppy, and justpopping
over to the hard drive used in older computers. The company I used to work
for had an old Corona PC with older bioses, this was fixed with an Everex
hard drive controller card ( I don't know which one ), and a driver loaded
from dos that would allow the user to go to the hard drive.
I am sorry, I can't get exact part numbers anymore etc., they sod
the machine. I would try calling Everex ( I don't know the number either,
but call 1-800-555-1212 for 800 information) and trying to get their card
that handles this. Unless you go the hardcard route, you'll need a controller
card anyway. I seriously doubt that any patch program like this would exist
for a hard card device. As for as changing your bios chips... this is a very,
very, simple operation. If you go to your nearest pc user group I am sure
that you could find someone that could help you. They may even let you bring
the thing there, and your dumpster-orphan could the evenings' demonstration
(Sounds like an interesting thing to me).
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!wuarchive!rex!rouge!pc.usl.edu!pabres13 From: pabres13@pc.usl.edu (Joubert John V.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Dumpster diving pays off (no, really!) Keywords: Boot from floppy, then over to hd Message-ID: <4522@rouge.usl.edu> Date: 25 Feb 90 01:50:54 GMT References: <19768@nuchat.UUCP> <6550@cps3xx.UUCP> <3603@rti.UUCP> <19938@nuchat.UUCP> Sender: news@rouge.usl.edu Organization: Univ. of Southwestern La., Lafayette Lines: 24