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Can I Move an OnTrack-Formatted HDD from a 486 to a 386SX?

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First post, by Linoleum

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I'm still running into issues with the floppy drives on my 386SX, but I'm hoping to overcome the 500MB hard drive limit using OnTrack. My plan is to set up the drive on a 486 machine with OnTrack installed, since booting from its disk is required for proper initialization.

Once everything is configured, can I transfer the hard drive back to the 386SX and expect it to work without problems? I'm aiming to use either a 1GB or 4GB drive, formatted with FAT16.

P3 866, V3, SB Audigy2
P2 400, TNT, V2, SB Audigy2 ZS
P233 MMX, Mystique220, V1, AWE64
P166, S3 Virge DX, SB32, PicoGus
486DX2 66, CL-GD5424, SB32, SC55
Prolinea 4/50, ET4000, SB16
SC386SX 25, TVGA8900D, Audician32
286 10, ATI VGA Basic, Forte16

Reply 1 of 4, by Linoleum

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It worked at first... Until it passed the 500mb content size mark were it became kinda of unreadable.

P3 866, V3, SB Audigy2
P2 400, TNT, V2, SB Audigy2 ZS
P233 MMX, Mystique220, V1, AWE64
P166, S3 Virge DX, SB32, PicoGus
486DX2 66, CL-GD5424, SB32, SC55
Prolinea 4/50, ET4000, SB16
SC386SX 25, TVGA8900D, Audician32
286 10, ATI VGA Basic, Forte16

Reply 2 of 4, by schlang

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A 386 needs something for LBA thats why I use a Promise EIDEMAXX card in mine.
All the funny stuff with Anydrive, Ontrack or EZ-Drive always had one or another draw back

PC#1: K6-III+ 400 | 512MB | Geforce4 | Voodoo1 | SB Live | AWE64 | GUS PNP Pro
PC#2: 486DX2-66 | 64MB | Riva128 | AWE64 | GUS PNP | PAS16
PC#3: 386DX-40 | 32MB | CL-GD5434 | SB Pro | GUS MAX | PAS16

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Reply 3 of 4, by Linoleum

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Yeah.. OnTrack didn’t work for me, but EZ-Drive did. It's too bad it takes 5kb of conventional memory on my system though...

P3 866, V3, SB Audigy2
P2 400, TNT, V2, SB Audigy2 ZS
P233 MMX, Mystique220, V1, AWE64
P166, S3 Virge DX, SB32, PicoGus
486DX2 66, CL-GD5424, SB32, SC55
Prolinea 4/50, ET4000, SB16
SC386SX 25, TVGA8900D, Audician32
286 10, ATI VGA Basic, Forte16

Reply 4 of 4, by wierd_w

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There's a driver that can relocate it, so it only eats 1k or so.

It's found in *older* ezdrive diskettes, but works with the newer versions too.

Pull it off an old version's diskette and give it a whirl.

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