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From: matth@progress.COM (Matthew J. Harper)
Subject: Re: Adding Hard Drive to Compaq Deskpro 8086
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py@meadow.uucp (Peter Yeung) writes:

>In article <11478@hub.ucsb.edu> 6500boo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (William Bushing) writes:
>>Here's dumb beginner question number 102748...
>>
>>I have an old (ancient?) Compaq Deskpro 8086 computer with a
>>Seagate ST-225 20 Meg hard drive in it. I'm thinking of putting
>>a Seagate ST-251-1 drive in but it suddenly dawned on me that
>>I'm not sure how! I've replaced plenty of drives in AT and 386
>>machines with BIOS's accessible via SETUP. How does one inform
>>the Compaq 8086 of a drive's configuration? I have never had to
>>deal with the Compaq's innards other than a board put in shortly
>>after I got the system in 1986 or so. Thanks for tips on how to
>>proceed... or if I should (or can) proceed.
>>

  About four years ago I installed an st251-1 in my Compaq Deskpro 8086.  The
disk came with Ontrak's Disk Manager software.  Being a an adventurous novice,
I did it all myself.  Since Ontrak was what I had, that is what I used.  It 
worked just fine , including the extra dmdrvr.bin that gets loaded in the 
config.sys since the disk had to be partitioned.  (Dos 3.2).

  I don't know what version of DOS you are running with, so I cannot say for 
sure, but you will most likely need some wort of driver in the config.sys if
your DOS version doesn't allow partitions > 32 Meg.  The BIOS in my machine
sees a "C" drive when I boot without the driver.  That's it.

Good luck, feel free to e-mail me if you have any questions.  My mailer has some
problems sometimes though, so if you don't get a reply in a couple of days, look
here and I'll post it for you.

Matth

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