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386, hard drive not found, seek failure and more

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First post, by SpitFire95

Posted on 2021-09-12, 19:40

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I just got a mitac mistation 3s with a 386 and phoenix 3.10.0. it got the original hard drive but I'm quite new to this, so i don't know how to get it to work, i got several HDD errors, like drive seek failure, no drive found, and no boot device, help
Ah perfect, i just took some pics and now it says missing operation system🥲

Reply 1 of 3, by Caluser2000

Posted on 2021-09-12, 20:16

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Flat cmos battery?

There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s.
Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉

Reply 2 of 3, by jakethompson1

Posted on 2021-09-12, 20:43

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For one, the hard drive settings in the CMOS setup are much different than those handwritten on the drive.

Reply 3 of 3, by Horun

Posted on 2021-09-12, 22:50

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Agree ! Factory Translated specs are 903 cyl, 4 hds, 46 sect/track, write precomp 0, LZ 903. ~~It may have been setup with a disk manager type software so the settings on the label is diff than factory translated.~~
Ohh those hand labeled specs are for a CP30080/84 not the CP30084E as on the Conner label but was probably formatted with those settings so I would set it as those labels first. And remove the 2nd drive (set to none).

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