On 23 Oct 2000, at 19:23, Randy Goldenberg wrote:
> This was originally posted by Ben Jemmett:
>
> [...] On a Phoenix, the CMOS setup can usually be reached by
> starting DEBUG and entering:
> a
> INT 19
> INT 20
> (hit enter - this is a blank line)
> g
>
> and then pressing F2 when it prompts.
FWIW,
Actually this is something like "Restart Operating System". I
remember he posted a correction, its 18 and 20 not 19 and 20.
And to answer Chad Fernandez, its an Osbourne computer, in a
standard AT case. (ie looks like it would take a standard
motherboard) The keyboard is AT and the mouse is serial (as
opposed to PS/2 style connectors)
The SCSI card is Adaptec AHA 1540C/1542C BIOS v1.01. There is
also an IDE/IO card included. Setting the HDDs in cmos to Not
Installed just by-passes this.
The 1 gig drive was getting too noisy, so I found a 340MB SCSI
drive that I had bought in a large box of HDDs. Previously I didn't
know if this drive would work. I'm installing DR-DOS on it as I type.
There was also a 3C509 TP card included, and it works! This
machine will be my mother's (as an upgrade from her old 386), so
she will be able to surf the internet at the same time as me. :-)
The BigFoot I saw was almost as big as a 5.25 drive, being 4GB.
This new 1G drive is quite heavy, and very large, especially when
up against a "normal" sized drive.
My plan was to put the old harddrives onto the IDE connector, and
copy across. I got a hard drive failure (these drives had been failing
in the 386 though) but then the SCSI couldn't load the BIOS so I
guess one cannot peacefully mix IDE and SCSI?
I think I would prefer SCSI to IDE in my main machine, except for
the cost!
(I know of a guy with an all-SCSI system and SCSI CD burner; he
can play games like Quake3 whilst burning [under linux of course]
without upsetting anything. Try it with IDE, and you'll make plenty
of coasters, or cause your game to chug)
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