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From: lenny@alps.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,misc.wanted
Subject: Help with XT-GEN disk controller and Miniscribe 20MB drive...
Keywords: format, low-level, cables, dip switches, etc...
Message-ID: <100@alps.UUCP>
Date: 24 Aug 89 13:41:54 GMT
Reply-To: rutgers!alps!lenny
Followup-To: poster
Organization: American LP Systems, Inc., Bohemia, New York
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Help!  Firstly I don't get these groups downstream here, so reply
via mail...

I'm trying too hook up a 20mb hard drive for a co-worker, who
has a very old IBM PC (real IBM, with built-in BASIC).   Basically
it had two full height 360K floppy drives, I removed one, removed 
a serial board and put a XT-GEN disk controller in it's place.  The
20MB 1/2 height Miniscribe 3425 is put where drive B: would have been.

I hooked up the cables (how I think they are supposed to be) and
went at it... Booted MSDOS, ran DEBUG and typed:

-g=c800:5

At that time it ran the firmware low-level routine.  I entered 3:1
interleave, and then said I was dynamically formatting the drive.
I then entered the cylinders (which I forget right now), the heads,
and padded the rest of the values which I didn't know.

Each and every time I tried this I got:

Error - Completion code 01

Insert DOS disk in drive A:
Press any key to continue

						Help! Help! 

						Thanks,
						Lenny
-- 
Lenny Tropiano,  Project Manager / Sr. Software Engineer
American LP Systems, Inc.      E-MAIL   : ...{icus,rutgers,sbcs}!alps!lenny
305-1 Knickerbocker Avenue     AT&T MAIL: ...attmail!alps!lenny
Bohemia, New York    11716     PHONE    : 1-516-589-7930