zippysticks
Veteran Member
Folks,
have acquired a Commodore PC30 II (Actually contains a Commodore PC40 III mainboard) and removed the slightly leaking CMOS backup batteries before powering up. Of course now they are removed (replacements on the way) I have lost all the settings including the hard drive config. I appear to have Commodore BIOS version 2.0 on this Machine.
Anyone know what the settings should be for a WD 93028 A (20 MB) drive please ?
Of course I have found CHS settings online (782/2/27) but none of these are configurable with this machine - it would appear to only support one of 46 predefined types with seemingly no way to manually enter these settings.
Note that the hard drive was not spinning up on first try and so I had to rotate the spindle by hand to free it up.
It now spins up and I can see the head stepper moving during self test and attempts to read from the drive - its quite possible the drive is dead in some other way but I'd like to try and find appropriate settings in order to test. I don't currently have another working machine to try the drive in.
Thanks
have acquired a Commodore PC30 II (Actually contains a Commodore PC40 III mainboard) and removed the slightly leaking CMOS backup batteries before powering up. Of course now they are removed (replacements on the way) I have lost all the settings including the hard drive config. I appear to have Commodore BIOS version 2.0 on this Machine.
Anyone know what the settings should be for a WD 93028 A (20 MB) drive please ?
Of course I have found CHS settings online (782/2/27) but none of these are configurable with this machine - it would appear to only support one of 46 predefined types with seemingly no way to manually enter these settings.
Note that the hard drive was not spinning up on first try and so I had to rotate the spindle by hand to free it up.
It now spins up and I can see the head stepper moving during self test and attempts to read from the drive - its quite possible the drive is dead in some other way but I'd like to try and find appropriate settings in order to test. I don't currently have another working machine to try the drive in.
Thanks
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