First post, by iulianv
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I'm struggling to put together an old system for some DOS games that marked my beginnings in the PC world, and the most "material" I've gathered so far comes from the 486 era.
While I have a perfectly good, never used before, ALi 1487/1489 mainboard (4PCI, 4ISA, FDD/IDE/COM/LPT) - no-name and somehow negligently built, but nevertheless fully functional - I'm also testing a few ISA/VLB boards.
In order to be able to use a HDD and a mouse I got an ISA I/O controller based on the Goldstar Prime 2c chip, but I cannot seem to get it working - mouse doesn't work (although mouse support is enabled in BIOS), and also no hard-drive is detected (I'm trying to use a Quantum Fireball 1.28GB). Is there something else I need to do, or should I consider the possibility that the I/O card is broken (I have absolutely no experience with such controllers)?
Speaking of drive capacity, predefined values in BIOS go up to 160MB, but there's also an "Enable LBA" option - does this mean I'll be able to use HDDs larger than ~500MB?
Thanks.