Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!utkcs2!!brown From: brown@cs.utk.edu (Lance A. Brown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Upgrade problem with an AT Message-ID: Date: 4 Jun 91 01:05:18 GMT Sender: usenet@cs.utk.edu (USENET News Poster) Distribution: comp Organization: University of Tenn., Knoxville, Dept. of Computer Science Lines: 18 I own a Proteus Technologies 286 system and recently bought a TEAC 3.5" 1.44Meg floppy drive for it only to find that the ^&*(& system can't deal with it properly. I had been led to believe that it would. This system has an Everex motherboard with two BIOS chips in it labeled "1800-27 AMI-C" and "1800-48 AMI-C" The board can deal with either 128K or 256K BIOS chips. The hard disk controller is an Everex EV-332 with PWA-00082-1 on it also. The AMI BIOS comes up with a 1986 copyright on it when I boot it. What do I need to upgrade on the machine to get it to recognize and use the 3.5" drive properly? Can I just upgrade the motherboard BIOS chips or do I need a newer drive controller? Lance Brown -- brown@cs.utk.edu Lance A. Brown The Crystal Wind is the Storm, 3500 Sutherland Avenue, Apt. L-303 and the Storm is Data, Knoxville, TN 37919 and the Data is Life -- The Player's Litany from _The Long Run_ by D.K. Moran