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From: wjr@rayssd.UUCP (Bill)
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Subject: Hard disk problems
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Date: Sun, 12-Oct-86 22:06:31 EDT
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I'm running an XT-Turbo with a 10M harddisk and am getting divide overflow
errors when trying to boot up from the hard disk. Now before anybody starts
flaming me about "not" buying a real PC just hit your "n" key and continue
on. Anyway, I am running with MS-DOS 3.1 and going through all the procedures
to make the disk bootable. I have managed to use PC-DOS to format the disk
and get the disk to boot before the disk "dies" trying to access other programs.
Has anybody had this problem before or could I have a bad hard disk, bad MS-DOS,
or just a crappy BIOS ROM?

Speaking of BIOS ROM, does anybody have the ROM (EPROM/PROM) that is 
"very" compatable with an IBM PC XT, can be used on an XT TURBO and 
is willing to e-mail it to me. I can take the device code in almost any 
format and have the capabilities to burn the individual devices myself.
Please, I'm not asking for an illegal copy of an IBM BIOS, but one that
is compatable with MS-DOS 3.1 or higher that you can supply me with.

Thanks,

Bill Ramey