Hello, thank you very much for details, almost forgot this entire thread 😀
I have year 1995 AST Advantage 611s computer (cyrix 586 100mhz) and would be very excited to make it working, maybe it has the HDD limitation since tried bunch of HDD's and I'm stuck at the boot "searching for HDD" and I can't enter anywhere, with Windows 98 bootdisk I'm able to log dos, but can't do much there since computer doesn't have HDD recognized 😁
This machine had windows 95 when it was new and I haven't found bios updates for it.
I need to check is there any slots where I could put this "drive controller card ", I think on motherboard there's only ISA-sockets those black long bars, could be also extensions slots not sure.
Bios has autodetection mode but doesn't seem to work, not sure if there's something broken with the machine, or maybe it requires exact cycles and heads.
Should it work if I attach for example 40gb drive but it only recognizes it as 504 mb ? if it should recognize it, maybe there's some other issues then.
Should find about 500mb or less HDD and test it out.