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From: aadm@uncecs.edu (Atkins D. Michael)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: ibm-pc portable
Keywords: trying to add hard drive
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.023334.5658@uncecs.edu>
Date: 12 Apr 91 02:33:34 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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i have a friend that has an ibm-pc portable (you know , a pc
with wheels). i have added memory to 640 and that seems to work
ok.  she bought an seagate 225 (20 meg) hard drive and wants
to install it in bay 2.  i have a controller (wd) that i just took
out of one of my machines because i went rll.  it was hooked
up to a seagate 225 and worked without a hitch for several years.
I can't get the machine to recognize it though.  i get a 1701
error on boot.  the manual states that the system board switches
should be set to 7 & 8 on for one floppy.  changing that to
other settings doesn't seem to help.  

anyone out there know anything about these anchors.  can a hard drive 
be added ( the bios date relative to a pc) indicates that the 
technoloyy was avaliable at the time.

any help would be greatly appreciated.