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From: jb@aablue.UUCP (John B Scalia)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: IBM-AT BIOS ROMS
Summary: Yeah, but get the right version
Keywords: 3085 Disk Manager
Message-ID: <603@aablue.UUCP>
Date: 22 Sep 89 02:17:45 GMT
References: <1989Sep19.021545.8110@NCoast.ORG> <[2058.1]comp.ibmpc;1@point.UUCP> <1658@psuhcx.psu.edu>
Reply-To: jb@aablue.UUCP (John B Scalia)
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In article <1658@psuhcx.psu.edu> wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes:
>In article <[2058.1]comp.ibmpc;1@point.UUCP> wek@point.UUCP (Bill Kuykendall) writes:
>|>in the BIOS tables (only 14 are in the tables).  I prefer not to use
>|>a TSR such as Disk Manager.  Fortunately (or unfortunately) I have a
>|
>|Huh?  DM isn't a TSR, but it doesn't cover miniscribes so it won't help
>|anyway.
>Sure it does.  Just get the miniscribe version.  Anyone know of any versions
> [deletions...]

As someone who's had to go through this with a very unhelpful OnTrack techie,
just make sure you've got DM Version 3.6 or higher. One of my glorious 
distributors sent me a 3085 (which I should mention is what the original
poster is using) enclosed with DM Version 3.3. It appeared to format the
drive perfectly, but after logical format and software loading, it wouldn't
do anything on reboot. We even tried it 3 times before we called. Anyway,
OnTrack just claimed the drive was probably defective, until I prodded them
about "What's your current version numbers up to?"

PS. I don't normally even bother with 3rd party stuff like DM. Sneer as I
might at some of Everex's botched attempts, their Disk Utility package is
pretty robust. It permits using the CMOS numbers or defining on-the-fly.
Of course, we only discovered this AFTER our first 3085 :-) :-)

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