George White wrote to Peter Knapper on 11-11-1999

GW> page 300 there is a section on AMI BIOS. Page 301, General Rules:
GW> 
GW> "If an IDE-type hard drive is installed, the date mmddyy should be
GW> 040990 or later for use with any operating system, including DOS.
GW> Special timing requirements of IDE drives were accomodated on the
GW> date noted. 

George, you miss a very large point here: if the BIOS will support the
IDE drive enough to get far enough into the boot to load IBM1S506.ADD
it doesn't matter WHAT the BIOS timings are - they are totally
irrelevant from that point on.  Hence the advice: boot the system and
try it.  If you can install, press on and don't look back.  She's been
running DOS/WIN on the machine so unless the drives are changed out it
can obviously read the disk and probably hasn't read the IBM docs so it
doesn't know any better.  The same goes for the keyboard bios problems.
 I had one of who knows how many boards with out-of-date keyboard
micros that failed.  The rest chugged on.

Will Honea 
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