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From: jburnes@swbatl.sbc.com (Jim Burnes - 235-7444)
Subject: Cant Boot Tiny Disk - HELP!
Message-ID: <1992Jul21.063243.19239@swbatl.sbc.com>
Organization: Southwestern Bell
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 06:32:43 GMT
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Hi!
I DL'ed rawrite and the dist.fs and fixit.fs to my PC at home. I
then put both images on their respective 1.2 meg floppies and booted
my system.
It read the tiny disk for about 5-10 seconds and rebooted my machine.
For the record I have a pretty generic 386 box ( except for the
drive controller).
AMI BIOS (circa 1990).
AMI 386/20 motherboard, 4 meg RAM, 64k cache
Orchid ProDesigner Plus VGA
Perstor ARRL controller (gives you about 1.9 x MFM)
Miniscribe 80meg (ARRL gives you about 150meg)
No 387
I've tried disabling video shadow ram to no avail.
Has anyone seen this problem?
BTW: After rawrite had written the entire fs to disk (apparently
without error) I got a "couldnt find address mark" error. Is
this a standard message that rawrite burps out?
I've crashed and I can't get up....
Thanks in advance,
Jim Burnes
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