Reply 20 of 64, by Mau1wurf1977
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wrote:In the US MB IDE HDDs are very common and cheap. IMO there is no reason to retrofit CF-IDEs et cetera. Yes: HDDs sometimes die but with MS-DOS machines a replacement HDD is up and running in minutes. Disclaimer: I rarely ever go beyond MS-DOS games.
At least for me, here in Australia, postage kills any cheap deals. I have a ton of SATA drives lying around, so it was natural to look for a solution that allowed me to use SATA drives.
wrote:Isn't the limiting only required for boards that use always auto detection where the BIOS may hang?
For 386/486 I just plug a large HDD and enter the maximum CHS values manually. These settings limit to 504 MB automatically. I don't have to limit the HDD itself.
If the BIOS already features HDD Auto Detection it is usually an extra menu. So if this would hang (I haven't seen this yet though) you could still enter it manually.
Yes. I just wanted to know if a 504 MB limited drive would work as I expected. Well it didn't but it's not a big loss. The 1024 / 16 / 63 settings work very well.
wrote:After some search, I ended up locating you'r really nice time machine video's on youtube.
Or it could have been Victor Bart's video's, that made youtube tell me about you'r video's.
Can not remember.... Just glad I know about SeaTools now. 😀
Great to hear and exactly why I make these videos 😀