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Is this ISA-based multi IO controller card too old to cope with an old 428 mb ("large") Seagate HDD? The HDD has got 899 cylinders. It rarely gets auto detected inside the mobo's BIOS, and when it does, the mobo won't boot from it.
I've tried this 428mb HDD on another ISA-based multi IO controller card, a bigger better looking Goldstar card, and it worked OK. I guess this Goldstar controller card is "super" or "enhanced", whereas the one in the photo may be for older computers like 386s?
I wonder if I could limit the size of the Seagate 428mb HDD, in order to "trick" this old IO card in to thinking it's a smaller HDD? I have got a copy of Seagate's SeaTools for DOS - on a bootable CD. I might try booting from this CD (using a more modern mobo), and then see if it can reduce the size of this old HDD.