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Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 12:06:56 -0700
From: Neal <lbneal AT pysmatic DOT net>
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Subject: Re: DISK
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John -

A external SCSI might be an option since has own BIOS.

Neal
====

John Hoogendam wrote:
> 
> 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
> > >