Hard drive for the Compaq Deskpro 386

[widge]

Hello,

The Compaq Deskpro 386 could have a hard drive of 40 MB (Type 17).

I have created the file with Type 17 and chosen [MFM] AT Fixed Disk Adapter as HDD:

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When I boot I get this message:

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I type F1, boot Compaq DOS 3.10 from diskette and type fdisk c:

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I get the message "No Fixed Disks":

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What should I do to make it recognize the hard drive?

Thanks

[Zup]

AFAIR, Compaq used ESDI hard drives on their Deskpro computers.

My Deskpro PCem machine uses a WD1007 ESDI controller and a 1024h 8c 17s hard drive (those figures came from the Deskpro datasheets), but in older versions you could use XTIDE BIOS as non-native HDD controller.

[SarahWalker]

You need to configure the hard drive in BIOS setup. For the Deskpro 386 it's disc based, so you need a copy of the Compaq setup disc.

[widge]

From COMPAQ Diagnostics 5.08, I start SETUP 5.05:

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Default type is 42:

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I change it to 17:

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After reboot, two beeps (which means the POST has completed) but a black screen:

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[widge]

I was originally with i386DX/16-CGA. Made it work with i386DX/20-Hercules.