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Britt Morelli Hansen schrieb:

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Does the machine try to access the floppy(light, sound)?
Check floppy drive cable connections.

Light is on all the time, which may indicate a problem with the floppy?
I've
checked the connections and they seem to be ok.

If its on _all_ the time this sound like a cable twisted by 180 degrees?

Hey, you are right! :-) It works!! Stupid me... On the other side of the
cable it said "this side up". Wouldn't it make more sense if the back side
had said "this side down"?!


Try to clear the current configuration in CMOS (default boot device is
stored there).

Cleared it by setting sw 6 to on in 60sec. and then back to off.

Make sure Floppy boot is enabled (it can be disabled using the DIP
switches)

How is that? sw4=on overrides the EISA configuration diskette boot
control.
Does that mean that it doesn't boot from floppy when on?

You can disable "Floppy boot" in the EISA config

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If you have any other Compaq EISA System you can try to
boot a SCSI disk with exiting F10 service partition.

Unfortunately not....

Contact me if you can't find an appropriate drive,
I may have one spare?
The drive itself is a pretty generic Mitsumi drive,
just it has a Compaq Bezel that can be swapped easily.
Complete Compaq Floppies sell on epay.de frequently.
You may get a complete XL for a few EUR.

Thanks you so much for the assistance! :-)

Actually I'm trying to install Linux on the machine, but now the scsi drives
are giving me hard times. Red Hat 7.3 does not have the appropriate drivers.
Anyone out there who could direct me to the right place for this?


Gereon