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From: psfales@ihlpl.UUCP (Peter Fales)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: 20 meg hard disk upgrade on 6300
Message-ID: <1332@ihlpl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Sep-86 18:08:35 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 26 18:08:35 1986
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> 
> >What if anything can be done to fix the extra long time delay??
> 
> 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?

I recently purchased ROM BIOS 1.43 and yes, it does solve this problem.
The reason is that the new ROM has all the HDU code in the ROM and
does not use the code in the ROM on the controller board.  I now get
no startup delay and the message "Fixed disk 1: (ready)" rather than
"Optional ROM at..."