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SCO unix 3.2v4. 21 IDE Hard Disk
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Don't like raining on parades, but moving to IDE isn't an upgrade, more like a downgrade.
Is the hang during the install onto the new disk or is it the first boot after the install?
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Is the hang during the install onto the new disk or is it the first boot after the install?
Ed Fair
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Hardware BIOS problem locating/identifying the IDE drive. Do you have another one you can try? Is this an older drive, like 2 gb or less?
By your message it sounds like it never attempts to load. Once the boot starts it should take 5 to 10 seconds of dancing around on the floppy getting pieces. Ed Fair
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By your message it sounds like it never attempts to load. Once the boot starts it should take 5 to 10 seconds of dancing around on the floppy getting pieces. Ed Fair
efair@atlnet.com
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arizonasco
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How old is the computer you're installing the drive in? Did the motherboard detect the new drive? Are you sure of your Master/Slave settings on the IDE drive?. Are you certain the new drive is any good? Since you are not getting a boot prompt, the system is failing before or at the point it checks for a bootable floppy in the disk drive. I know this may seem obvious, but make sure you did not disconnect the floppy interface cable or power cable while you were working inside the box. If you bios is set not to check for an installed floppy drive and the cable is disconnected it will not give a floppy disk fail message. In any case you have either a hardware failure, misconfigured hardware, or misconfigured bios.
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