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Message from Steven
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Carlos wrote:
>
> I just downloaded BasLin for loop under DOS, 
> I boot DOS and BASLIN all right, but when it 
> must check for HDDs (hda,b, ...) and mount, 
> it looks it doesn't recognize my very old HDD 
> ST238 with ST11 BIOS. 

Is that an IDE drive?

> I have a ISA card controlling it, perhaps 
> that is the problem... 

No, an ISA controller card should not be a problem
(as long as your drive C: is on an IDE drive).

> I took a photo of the problem 

The first line in your photo says:
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hdd: IRQ probe failed (0)
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hdd is the secondary slave IDE drive.  The failure
of the probe indicates that you have no secondary
slave IDE drive.  The question is:  do you have a
primary master (hda) IDE drive?

It appears that the ST238 is an old MFM drive.
They were used on XT computers (in the 1980s).  
Are you really using a drive that old?  

You need a special kernel to access such an old
drive.  Slackware 7.1 has an XT kernel that is
designed to handle those drives.  It is a bzimage
and you will find it in the /kernels/xt.i directory
of a Slackware 7.1 mirror.

If you edit boot.bat (in C:\BASLIN) to point to that 
bzimage (instead of zimage), it might boot the DOS 
version of BL3.  

A better solution would be to replace your XT drive
with an old IDE drive.  You should be able to get 
a 1990s IDE drive (bigger, faster and more reliable 
than your XT drive) for a couple of dollars. 

Cheers,
Steven