HDD not working w. PhoenixBIOS A486 Version 1.03 o.m. laptop

[steveish]

Hi,
I have an old 468 DX2 laptop 66 Mhz with a 209,7 MG HDD. Unfortunate the BIOS dose not recognise the HDD anymore. It reports a fixed disk failure ( Invalid configuration information - Please run SETUP program ).
I tryed an upgrade to Version 1.03 ( recomended by a friend) but that dose not help at all. The label on the BIOS says Version 1.02 and the CHIP
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~ E9318
NM27C010VI50
Did I did the right thing ? and how can I get it back working.

The HDD is working fine in my other Laptop so it can not be the drive
it is a SÈGATE ST 9235AG.

cheers

Steveish

[soupy]

Perhaps a dead battery lost the HDD setup information. For those older drives, you needed to specify it manually. Do you have the setup program?

[steveish]

I have the settings for the HDD but also the manual entry in the SETUP does not help the BIOS will not recognise the HDD.
985 CYL, 13 Heads, 32 Sect = 209,7 MB. I need to restore the old BIOS.

but thanks for the help
Steveish

[Rainbow]

27C010 should be EPROM, not software upgradeable!

I have two these drives (Seagate ST9235A) - they're both weird. When I connect any of them to secondary IDE channel on my MSI MS-5120 board, it does not work. When I set the primary master to none, the drive gets detected and works. I recommend to get another HDD. Or did it work before?

[steveish]

Hi there,
thanks for the reply
I had no problems before and it works in my HP Omnibook fine, only if I put it back into my Compaq it just dont wanna work anymore. I Tryed a Conner HDD (60 MB) and that also wan't work in the compaq but in the HP Omnibook. (same BIOS 1.03)
Some thing is fuc.... up.... (sorry for the words) but I don't know what.

Any one who can help?