Getting the right CF Card is key i come to learn, I've had better luck with "SATA To PATA IDE Hard Drive Adapter Converter 2.5/3.5 HDD Parallel to Serial ATA" and Disk on Modules "DOM" The old gateway 2000 I'm using does have PCI so i have a SATA card arriving to give that a shot. I'll try to sell …

Transcend 8GB fail ZHONGSIR 8GB fail ZHONGSIR 512MB Fail 8GB PATA DOM SSD works I Ordered a Lexar 8GB to give it one more shot before i give up In from China, Sandsik 8GB - sorta works fdisk created a partition of max size = 495,157,284 bytes when 2048mb expected for some reason, other than that i …

konc wrote on 2023-11-24, 07:33: Just to be sure, you've run fdisk /mbr on them, right? yes of course ...

Transcend 8GB fail ZHONGSIR 8GB fail ZHONGSIR 512MB Fail 8GB PATA DOM SSD works I Ordered a Lexar 8GB to give it one more shot before i give up

I now have 3 different adapters, and at least 3 different brands of CF Card all 8 GB or less, I cant get any of these to work. I'm just going to try a 8GB PATA DOM module. DOS 6.22 recognizes them sorta but fails to properly partition or format DOS crashes , FreeDOS seems to work but wont boot after …

You mean it's stuck at the drive detection, or it doesn't boot after that? If it's the first and you're tried the CF as a single drive on the IDE channel like Munx suggested above, what's the size of the CF card? I'm thinking it might be more than the BIOS HDD limit. For certain PIIs even a 16GB …

This is a Pentium II Gateway 2000, with Bios 4A4LL0X0.15A.0013.P10 I have a Plextor CD ROM as Slave, the Adapter as Master. The PC never gets past "Press F1 for Setup" after initial post dialog. This is the adapter - https://www.ebay.com/itm/265638624105 I'm hoping if i just put both devices as …

I have this lockup problem only after loading up windows 3.11 a second time after booting to dos 6.22. For example, after loading windows, exit, then windows again. As soon as I try to load windows again, I get a network card error and the system freezes. I have to do a cold boot if I want to load …