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A 486 gives invalid drive specifica
The drive is fine. It turns out 1 of 2 ls245 octal bus transceivers on the motherboard has 1 bit that is always high. Will either have to replace the chip or scrap the board.- anothersmiley
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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A 486 gives invalid drive specifica
Negative on the low level format. I installed the drive on the pentium and had it working. I read the boot sector using debug. I then installed the drive on the 486 and again read the boot sector using debug. It turns out that every other byte always has the least significant bit set. I then...- anothersmiley
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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A 486 gives invalid drive specifica
A 486 gives invalid drive specification when trying to access the hard drive. The drive and controller were tried in a different computer and worked fine. A drive and controller from a different computer were tried in the 486 and the error message came up. The bios autodetects and sets the drive...- anothersmiley
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