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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!pmafire!news.dell.com!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!chaph.usc.edu!aludra.usc.edu!not-for-mail From: eddy@aludra.usc.edu (George Edmond Eddy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: old bios's & >100Meg IDE Date: 23 Sep 1992 13:30:39 -0700 Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 38 Message-ID: <19qk5fINNsvb@aludra.usc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu Background: I installed 386bsd on an seagate st4096 (80MG mfm) at home when 0.1 was first released been running since, i extracted sys.386bsd and have been rebuilding the kernel successfully, but have little room for anything else. so i bought a conners cp3204, the first installation was successful for a week until a filesystem "bit the dust". the second reinstall was more difficult but finally worked for about three days, until the /usr filesystem bit the dust again. now i cannot extract the bin01 dist. extract complains about corrupted files, different ones every time. between the first installation and now i have had alot of "bizarre" problems that i haven't otherwise seen mentioned here so it would seem as though i am the only one having them. They all seem to be problems related to the disk drive however. I have replaced the conners IDE with my MFM disk and it runs wonderfully, no unknown problems since the first install. Problem/Question: Here at work i mentioned my problems to someone that in turn said that we had PCs that needed old bios's replaced for systems running IDE drive with greater than 100MG HD's does anyone know anything related to this? BTW - I have a noname mother board with a Pheonix bios dated 1988. i *think* it's revision is 1.1 (or something similar). As matter of fact my drive type 47 is NOT configurable, and it does not have a type 48. Thanks anyone in advance! - rusty -- eddy@usc.edu