20 meg hard disk upgrade on 6300

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From: Gene Sampieri
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1986 11:53

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I have upgraded a PC-6300 to a 20 meg Tandon hard disk with a WDC 1002A
WX2 short controller board. Everything seems to work fine except at boot
time. At the spot it usually test for the hard disk, a message is displayed
"Optional Rom at ... ".  It hangs at this point for 18 to 20 seconds befor
going on to normall operation, booting from the hard disk and all else is
fine.

What if anything can be done to fix the extra long time delay??

Also when running Nortons Disk Sort, I now get a message saying "out of
memory". This does not happen on a plus with a 20 meg unit. Chkdsk indicates
there is well over 500K left after boot.

Thanks...

Gene Sampieri
AT&T Bell Labs
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Subject: 20 meg hard disk upgrade on 6300
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Date: Wed, 17-Sep-86 07:53:48 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 17 07:53:48 1986
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