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but did you set the BIOS CHS on the HURCO motherboard in the machine ? See my notes. You have to attach a keyboard etc, etc. anyway, send me an email ryeisenman at gmail.com

> my floppy drive is b: instead of a: but that was no problem to figure out.
RE: How to change the floppy from B: to A:
Floppy cables usually have two connectors on the ribbon, one is wired...

to cwalker1960: you don't change the geometry (CHS) using fdisk.You have to enter the motherboard bios. Usually you do that by hitting the DEL key after turning on power.

RE: what is the hurco utility disk that i have seen mentioned in other posts?

Here are all the files that are on the Hurco FS utility disk. https://goo.gl/l1Uots
You need to copy those to a...

> re: cwalker1960 .... Does setting the bios params make the hard drive follow it when fdisk and formatted?? ....

I THINK YOU ARE BATTLING A FEW BASIC MISCONCEPTIONS HERE.

The CHS setting...

you want to boot up on DOS 6.22 and use the DIS FDISK that is on the DOS 6.22 disk
> I ask this because the linux guys recommend not using linux fdisk if you are configuring the drive for DOS
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For IDE Flash modules, I follow the same procedure in an earlier post by bloke below for Hard disks (for Hurco ver 1.x), with an additional comment in CAPS.

You need the DOS bootable Hurco FS...

I've used Transcend 128 and 512MB IDE flash modules on a few Hurcos. On a v1.64 with 486DX motherboard. And on a 2.x with a backplane Pentium computer board. A nice thing about them is that they plug...

Actually, you can test the security device on a PC (having a floppy and parallel port).

You will need the Optikey floppy (usually available in the software folder provided with the Hurco ).
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