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From: rosen@mtgzz.UUCP (t.rosenfeld)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: 20 meg hard disk upgrade on 6300
Message-ID: <2152@mtgzz.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Sep-86 16:46:07 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 23 16:46:07 1986
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>I have upgraded a PC-6300 to a 20 meg Tandon hard disk with a WDC 1002A
>WX2 short controller board. Everything seems to work fine except at boot
>time. At the spot it usually test for the hard disk, a message is displayed
>"Optional Rom at ... ".  It hangs at this point for 18 to 20 seconds befor
>going on to normall operation, booting from the hard disk and all else is
>fine.
>
>What if anything can be done to fix the extra long time delay??
[ ... ]
>Gene Sampieri

I have the same problem.I don't think it has to do with the disk comming to
speed since it does the same thing on warm boot.

Can this have something to do with the ROM BIOS. I have the old one and I hear
it does not recognize a lot of hard disks. Whould anyone know if installing
the 1.43 ROM help?
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