the other day I was given a 486 computer running IBM dos 5.0 and win 3.1, 106MB hard drive etc. But I'm having a problem getting it to recognize my CD-ROM drive from 1998. I had it working by configuring the drive parameters in the very old BIOS and turning it to a "type 48" drive. Then had it working with my DOS boot floppy with oak CD driver, but I unplugged the drive and configured the BIOS for my 1gb hard drive (didn't work anyway) and put the CD drive back in and now no matter what I do, it always says "fixed disk configuration error" and won't boot from or detect the drive. what can I do to get the drive to work again? It boots of the hard drive with this error so I'm sure it's to do with the CD drive.
the type 48 drive options I currently have are "cyl: 0 Hd:1 pre: -1 LZ: 0 sectors: 10 size 0"
These are what I have from messing around with it to try and get it to work again. before they were changed I was browsing a win98 setup disk fine, but now I always get this error. can someone give me the correct settings for my BIOS to get this thing to work with the 106 MB drive, or possibly even the 1GB drive and the CD-ROM? I think I just need these parameters set again (assuming they are actually parameters) and it should work. I tried loading the default values for all options but it still doesn't work . could someone give me what these settings should be?
thanks in advance.
the type 48 drive options I currently have are "cyl: 0 Hd:1 pre: -1 LZ: 0 sectors: 10 size 0"
These are what I have from messing around with it to try and get it to work again. before they were changed I was browsing a win98 setup disk fine, but now I always get this error. can someone give me the correct settings for my BIOS to get this thing to work with the 106 MB drive, or possibly even the 1GB drive and the CD-ROM? I think I just need these parameters set again (assuming they are actually parameters) and it should work. I tried loading the default values for all options but it still doesn't work . could someone give me what these settings should be?
thanks in advance.