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From: rick@wet.UUCP (Rick Rutledge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Hard disk help wanted
Message-ID: <1422@wet.UUCP>
Date: 5 Aug 90 22:27:23 GMT
References: <127560@puff.encore.com> <5462@uwm.edu>
Reply-To: rick@wet.UUCP (Rick Rutledge)
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco
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In article <5462@uwm.edu> bnk@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Bob N Keenan) writes:
 >In article <127560@puff.encore.com> lnguyen@encore.com (Lucy Nguyen) writes:
 >>Does anyone know how to reinstall a hard disk without losing
 >>its contents? I want to take a 10 Meg MM-212 from an AT and move
 >>
 >>Lucy
 > The "code" you are talking about is a bios utility that is addressed
 > with dos DEBUG.  The controller card contains a built in setup/configure
 > in the hardware.  You need the address of where it is located. It would
 > look something like (at the DEBUG prompt): g=c800:5. This is the address
 > I remember off the top of my head for the Western Digital controller
 > compuadd ships with their st-251 40 meg drives.  Your best bet is to
 > find the exact make of the controller and then ask if anyone knows the 
 > debug address for it. 

You don't need that address.  Just add the drive to your SETUP routine,
after installing it.  You only need that address to low-level format the
drive.  Assuming you have a similar controller to the one with which the
drive was formatted, you should be able to plug it in, tell the 286 about
it, and go.  If you low-level format it (using DEBUG, etc.) YOU WILL LOSE
ALL OF THE DATA ON THE DRIVE.  
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