[vcf-midatlantic] ISA BIOS extension board?

[Richard Cini]

Good call! I’m sure I have some of those somewhere, so dual purpose (I could run WFWG then). Challenge is finding the right driver disk :-).

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Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] ISA BIOS extension board?

Yup. Just put the rom in a NIC or similar. You can still use the onboard
IDE interface.

On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 9:47 PM Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

> XT-IDE should work for you
>
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 9:09 PM Richard Cini via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
>
> > All –
> >
> >
> >
> > I have an old 486 “shoe box”/industrial PC from 1994 that
> > I want to toss a larger hard drive in to use with some Windows 3.11
> > experiments I’m doing. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have LBA BIOS
> extensions,
> > so I’m capped at 540MB. I have one from WD, but it’s kind of creaky. So,
> I
> > pulled out a 1.2G drive I had and installed OnTrack 9.57 which works
> fine.
> > However, I feel kind of funny relying on the software wedge because you
> > need to make custom boot diskettes, etc.
> >
> >
> >
> > So, I was looking for an ISA card with the LBA BIOS
> > extensions. I know they made them years ago, but I don’t know exactly
> what
> > they are called, so I’m not having much success in locating one.
> >
> >
> >
> > There may be other options like using an XT-IDE (if it does LBA; can’t
> > tell) or maybe a different IDE card. Problem is that space is very
> limited
> > (only 3 slots) and it has to be a low/short card to avoid interfering
> with
> > the CPU fan.
> >
> >
> >
> > Any other suggestions/advice welcome. Right now I’m going to run with the
> > 540MB drive I have, but I would like to find a better solution.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> >
> > Rich
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Rich Cini
> >
> > http://www.classiccmp.org/cini
> >
> > http://www.classiccmp.org/altair32
> >
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> >
> >
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