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Thread ID: 16292	2002-03-04 10:39:00	Got my hands on some old hardware - lets make it go!!	Guest (0)	Press F1

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37875	2002-03-04 10:39:00	Hi there, I've just 'invested' in an old Unisys PW2 Premier SVE/66 To put that into the terms of today, it as a REALLY FAT server case, 415W PSU, Pentium 66, couple of SCSI cards, network card, I/O Cards, 32MB EDO RAM, 2GB SCSI Drive, Floppy, 24X CDROM which I put in... OK, when it boots, it checks all the memory, then says 'Hard Drive Failure', beeps a lot, and asks me if I want to continue (F1), or run the config utility (F2)... If I continue, it says: Starting windows 95, then gives me a command prompt... Only A:/ is there. Running config gives me BIOS, and I have set everything up to the best of my ability aside from the HDD settings... I don't know what 'type' my HDD is, and I don't know how to set up the CDROM either... The hard drive apparently contains FreeBSD 4.0, but I can't make it detect it... I don't know what hard drive type it is, and as there are 49 to choose from I didn't pursue a trial and error method. There is nothing on the drive about cylinders, heads, sectors etc, though there is a serial and part number... I'll crank out some searches on those, but can you chaps give me any advice on how to make this baby humm...? Thanks, :) Erin	Guest (0)
37876	2002-03-04 18:38:00	It sounds like there is no HDD, it needs to boot from the scsi, but has to recognize the scsi card first to do that. You can turn off the IDE HDD in the bios. Keep the one for the CD rom active, see if there is a choice to boot from scsi in the bios startup. You may need to load the scsi driver from the 'A drive'	Guest (0)
37877	2002-03-05 04:17:00	Just set the IDE type to 'Not Installed'. If you don't do that, you can't boot from the SCSI. And you have only SCSI disks. If you are getting 'Loading Windows 95' you have a W95 boot floppy in the drive. Take it out. It should boot now. The trick will be what you type at boot time to get the single-user (passwordless) mode The BSD unix will recognise the CD drive all on its own. But -- make it boot up to see it work then shut it down (try Ctrl/Alt/Del) , and put Linux on the disk instead. BSD is different enough that you will find it difficult.	Guest (0)
37878	2002-03-05 07:17:00	mmmmmmm---am I missing something here? My suggestion would be-- (1)using DOS setup discs--format and load DOS. (2) setup CD drive with CD utillity. (3) Load Windows. If that doesn't work then----mmmmmmm 'hard disc failure' can simply mean that it is not DOS format. If you need a copy of DOS and a copy of my CD utillity let me have your email address. dougie	Guest (0)
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