Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!motcid!marocchi
From: marocchi@motcid.UUCP (Jim Marocchi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Zeinth Z-148 Hard Disk Upgrade...Suggestions Wanted
Message-ID: <4437@apricot22.UUCP>
Date: 22 Oct 90 15:14:25 GMT
Reply-To: motcid!marocchi@uunet.uu.net
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Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Div., Arlington Heights, IL
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I am working with someone that is attempting to upgrade a Zeinth Z-148 to 
accomodate a hard drive (and controller). This person has have come across 
a hard drive and controller and wish to equip the machine to accept it. 
Currently, the Z148 is configured for floppy drives only. The system does 
not have I/O connectors for expansion. I am willing to bet that I can pull 
some I/O off of the ribbon cable that connects the CPU board with the I/O 
board for use by the hard drive controller. Has anyone upgraded their Z148 
to use a hard disk drive? I also would need some info as to what interrupt 
& address(es) to setup for the HD controller. Would there be any change to 
the ROM BIOS to make the drive work? Is this worth the time? We would 
dislike having to upgrade to a different machine just to make use of the 
hard drive & controller. Any pointers? Thanx.
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