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From: 6600dadg@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (King of Sunset Town)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: HD in blue PC?
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Date: 22 Mar 91 07:03:48 GMT
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In article <13520003@hpfcmgw.HP.COM> stevek@hpfcmgw.HP.COM (Steve Kauder) writes:

>>In comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc, battle@umbc4.umbc.edu (Rick) writes:
>>
>>    I hava an original blue PC with 2 360k floppys.  I want to
>>    remove one floppy and add a HD, ie. ST225.  will the bios support
>>    such a drive?  The date on the bios is 1982.  
>>
>>    Can anybody shed some light on this?   Thanks.....

No way.  You need a BIOS upgrade.  How do I know?  I did it, too.
Where can you get an IBM BIOS upgrade?  You can't.  You have to buy
a third party BIOS chip (ie Phoenix).  They work fine, though.

Good luck!


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