Using a Maple MC-1175 ESDI controller with a Seagate ST4182E drive. Using an IBM 5170.
Any ideas?
I have installed this ESDI drive in my IBM 5170. I low level formatted it, I Fdisked it and formatted with with MS-DOS 6.2 (system transferred). However the system refuses to boot from that drive for some reason.
Using a Maple MC-1175 ESDI controller with a Seagate ST4182E drive. Using an IBM 5170. Any ideas?
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