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Help!!! with my Tandy 1000 TX harddrive error
Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 8:52 am
by dosuser
My Tandy 1000 TX gives a svcadp50 harddisk controller error. Please help!
Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 9:43 am
by dosraider
Not enough details.
What HD?
Do you have free IRQs?
BIOS rom version?
What's all hooked up yet on your 1000TX?
SCSI?
Plenty more details needed.
Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 10:04 am
by dosuser
HD #1 is Miniscribe Model # 8438
HD # 2 is Microscribe Model # 8040 - 00
I have the original keyboard and monitor.
Have know idea about the bios (Can't figure out how to get into system information)
SCSI? Ummmm... What is that??
Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 10:24 am
by dosraider
dosuser wrote:SCSI? Ummmm... What is that??
Small
Computer
System
Interface
Seeing your question and the info you were able to give, I can only advise you to forget the HD and go for a 100MB parallel zip drive.
Gives you 100MB/disk and is known to work on the Tandy 1000TX.
Really.
Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 10:28 am
by dosuser
Can it boot from the zip drive?
Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 10:44 am
by dosraider
No, you can't boot from it.
It needs drivers to work.
Don't you have a floppy? Was a 720 KB limit I thought, but eventually you can use a 1.44 one as 720 on a 1000 TX.
Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 10:15 pm
by wardrich
Hard drives are for sissies. You should upgrade to a <a href="
http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/andor ... jpg">Tandy 1000 TL/2</a> like mine! (note that that is not actually a picture of mine). hahaha
