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From: 6600dadg@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (King of Sunset Town)
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Subject: Re: HD in blue PC?
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Date: 23 Mar 91 06:23:40 GMT
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In article <+L{=52B@rpi.edu> sigma@jec302.its.rpi.edu (Kevin J Martin) writes:

>6600dadg@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (King of Sunset Town) 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.

>Don't be so hasty.  If the ROMs are dated October 27, 1982, they're the
>upgrade which allowed 640K ram in the original PC.  I have run RLL drives
>with NO problems on such a machine, using the Western Digital 27X 8-bit
>controller.  ROMs of that date or later DO allow for hard drives, and the
>controller's BIOS takes care of the rest of the work.

You may be right.  Except my PC *did* have 640K, and *didn't* work
with the Western Digital controller until I replaced the ROM.  Your
mileage may vary...


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