First post, by bluejeans
Picked up what I thought was a 386sx today because the guy in charge of the computing part of the junk shop swore it was one, turns out to be a 486-100. Which isn't too bad because I want a second 486, but it's much more limited than my compaq proprietary 486. For starters its' ide cable connects to an isa ide controller, and the bios only lets you select up to a type 47-ish drive. Was hoping to use an ide-sd card adapter but I can't auto-detect the drive, it needs the cylinder and head info, and I'm guessing it will only support up to 512mb. I unhooked the hard drive that came with it, which ripped off the socket part of the ide cable and bent the pins on the hard drive! Managed to bend them back but I'm starting to think if I can only transfer things by floppy, or swapping out the ancient hard drive that could die any second, to an enclosure I might be better off just returning it.
