Re: help-HD swap

[Harry Seaman <hseaman@execpc.com>]

On Fri, 19 Jul 1996, Robert Dewar wrote:

> Ah that is absolutely right, I had to do the BIOS upgrade for my 750 to
> get it to recognize the new disks, sorry I forgot that!
> 
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> "540 is an EIDE drive.  You may need to flash upgrade your BIOS.  When
> the 750s first came out, only 170 and 340 MB drives were available.
> When the 755's and 540/810 MB EIDE drives became available, IBM put
> out a BIOS update for the 750s so they could use the EIDE drives.
> You can get the latest BIOS from ftp.pcco.ibm.com in /pub/mobiles."
> 
Thanks to all for the help. I just flashed the latest bios (sytps142) but
fdisk still says no hard disk found. Also, easysetup test shows hdd-1
greyed out. I'm think it's a bad hard drive...