Re: Need Dos 3.3

Matt,

No, it's not that ancient. The mboard is a 386sx40 with a 'standard'
cmos setup. I can use an ide drive. The machine is a 1994 but the
software is about 1990. I hadn't considered the 32mb limit with
dos 3.3. The smallest hd I have is a 120mb. I guess I can use
only part of it. The machine software only allows one hd so it
would serve no purpose to have additional partitions. All the
old 10, 20, 30, and 40mb hd have all gone to hd heaven.

Thanks,

Bob

>It's been a while since I've thought about this kind of stuff! My best guess
>is that as long as you divide the drive into partitions smaller than 32MB
>each, you'll be fine. Is this going to be an MFM drive? If it's a really old
>motherboard the onboard BIOS may not support a "dumb" IDE card. There used to
>be IDE cards with BIOS extension ROMs to solve this problem and later there
>were extension ROMs that allowed larger than 528MB drives as well. If you're
>going MFM I suggest a nice Seagate ST251-1 with a Western Digital (1006?)
>controller card (it is an AT right?). Remember to set your drive address
>jumpers and don't forget the resistor pack that terminates the cable!
>
>Matt (engaging in PC nostalgia)
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