First post, by tikoellner
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Hey there.
I ran into some problems with my 486 VLB build. My board is ASUS VL/I-486SVGO (not VL/I-486SV2G). It runs AWARD 4.50G BIOS (April 1994 version).
I am currently using an old IBM HDD which is about 250mb, as a teporary solution.
During the weekend I tried to install 2.1gb CF card instead. BIOS detects the card without any problem. It does not seem to provide AUTO or LBA setting, but clearly shows 1954mb. Finally, I got a proper partition and got DOS 6.22 installed.
But...
The system does not run stable. Norton Commander hangs on first operations and there are some other errors reported (like General Protection Fault) while running random files. What I also noticed is FDISK reporting that my CF card is only 503mb (even though it shows the 1954mb FAT partition.
Can you tell me - is this problem related any HDD size limit of my motherboard? Or, as the board generally detects the proper size, rather related to CF card itself? What should I do to verify that?
Thanks