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Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 09:03:52 -0700
From: Neal <lbneal AT pysmatic DOT net>
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To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DISK
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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
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> 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
>