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  • Subject: Re: [BL] Problem with ST238 Hard Disk
  • Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:48:50 +0000 (UTC)

n 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.

My first drive (in my 1986 XT) was a 10MB MFM with an ISA controller.

If this works, I would be happy to make a smaller 2.2.16 kernel modeled on the BL3 one (with no USB support) with MFM support added. How much RAM does this computer have? Does it have PCI slots? Is it a 486? I can leave out support for unneeded hardware or features to make it smaller.

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

Or rename zimage to zimage.old and rename bzimage to zimage.

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.

Many of the older drives (up to 2GB) no longer work. I went through ten to find one that would partition and boot. They fail just sitting around.
Sindi



Cheers,
Steven


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