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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: WD1006V-MM2 with DTK 286 BIOS V3.25
Keywords: DTK 286 BIOS v3.25, WD1006-MM2
Message-ID: <368@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jan 90 19:15:13 GMT
References: <1989Dec31.211539.6791@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <1989Dec31.211539.6791@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> khl@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Kenneth H. Lee) writes:

| I am trying to replace my WD1003-WA2 with the WD1006V-MM2.
| 
| I keep getting "Fixed disk controller failure" whenever I try to boot
| the system up with the system configured for a hard disk.  If I change
| the CMOS configuration to contain no hard drive, the system boots up
| fine with just the floppy drives.

  First, did you set the drive type to one? If not, do so and continue.
Otherwise, set to "no drive" and boot DOS, then run the low level format
from the controller and set the drive type to one. Finally, I have
occasionally seen this type of thing, and just rebooting with
alt-cntl-del leads to a clean boot.

  Hope some of this is useful.
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	bill davidsen - sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
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