Mail Archives: opendos/2001/07/07/14:38:38
Neal,
The Promise Eide Max is a great card, but impossible to install in a laptop
computer, unless they (Promise) has a laptop version.
John Hoogendam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Neal" <lbneal AT pysmatic DOT net>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: DISK
> You can buy cards that will upgrade the IDE to support larger drivers.
>
> DTC makes a good one and MATROX also offers add-in IDE cards.
>
> I have used PROMISE EIDE MAX with various success..
>
> Neal
> ====
>
> > Fergus Hayman wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I've recently installed DRDOS on a 486 laptop 8 megs ram. The
> > Harddrive is about 380megs. I have a 6 gig drive but the bios only
> > recognizes about 472 megs under dos . I Installed the latest AST
> > Powerexec bios update i could find . Is there a way to get around
> > this limitation , with a boot partition or something. I tried an FTP
> > of OpenBSD on the larger drive .( IT recognized the 6 gig drive)and
> > it wouldn't boot past the set tty screen. I figured it might be
> > looking for some of the data outside the bios boundry. I might try
> > it again using a 450meg Openbsd partition to see if it will
> > boot.
> >
> > The laptop of course has no cdrom . The 3com pcmcia card i have works
> > well from the openbsd boot disk. I scanned the DRDOS network drivers
> > and didn't see anything for pcmcia cards. Win3.11 dosn't appear to
> > have anything for this card either--- 32bit .
> >
> > Regards Fergus
> >
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