OMG the old MFM drives...wasnt' the low level bios routine for them in debug
something like G C800:500?
-Joe
On Friday 24 May 2002 12:00 am, you wrote:
> On Thursday 23 May 2002 03:11, you wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 May 2002, Joe wrote:
> > > Oh another effective way is to go into debug from the dos command
> > > prompt and enter this series of commands:
> > > -F 220 L1000 0 (ENTER)
> > > -A CS: 100 (ENTER)
> > > MOV AX,301 (ENTER)
> > > MOV BX,200 (ENTER)
> > > MOV CX,1 (ENTER)
> > > MOV DX,80 (ENTER) <---"80" for hd1, "81" for hd2 >
> > > INT 13 (ENTER)
> > > INT 20 (ENTER)
> > > (ENTER) <-------BLANK LINE "VERY IMPORTANT" >
> > > -G (ENTER)
> > >
> > > Reboot after doing this and reinstall NT you will no longer have grub.
> > >
> > > -Joe
> >
> > But then Joe. 10 lines of debug commands!?!?! With a few useful
> > comments tossed in! Oh wow. It's not Linux, but I think it might win
> > the award for geekiest solution.
>
> I am incredibly grateful to Joe for reminding me of debug. Haven't used
> that since an old Maxtor MFM needed a good whack.
>
> I was giving advice to a W2K user the other day and was forced to tell him
> to use "ed" to look at a file because I had forgetten the name of edlin.
> He couldn't find ed but did come up with "edit". Thanks ... next time he
> asks me a stupid MS-only question, he gets to solve it with debug. :-)
>
> Bill
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