Niccolo Rigacci, <fd131@cleveland.freenet.edu>
Firenze - Italy
11 June 1998

Here are the utilities to bootstrap the Compaq Aero from the serial
line! There is a simple disk editor (DISKEDIT) and a more complex
program (HDSERIAL) which read and write hard disk sectors from the
serial line. To use them just attach the Aero to a desktop PC with a
serial cable and start R_DNLOAD.EXE on the desktop.

The DIAG.CPQ file in HDSERIAL and DISKEDIT directories is modified
so it feeds TEST.EXE instead of TEST.COM to the remote computer.
The HDSERIAL.EXE and DISKEDIT.EXE program was renamed TEST.EXE.

In the BASIC directory a simple QBasic "client" program for reading
or writing hard disk sectors when HDSERIAL is running on the
Compaq Aero. In the same directory there is an image file (HDA1.BIN)
of a bootable partition, useful to restore a missing operating
system hard disk. The image is:

2 Cylinders x 64 Heads x 63 Sectors x 512 bytes = 4128768 bytes

It is supposed to live on a 1.3 Gb disk with the following geometry:

0-652   Cylinders
0-63    Heads
1-63    Sectors

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