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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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