First post, by Thallanor
As the title implies, I have a dumb question about BIOS extensions. I know that some can bring new functionality to some PCs, but I was wondering what the limits of this are? For example, I have a PC with a floppy controller that supports double density drives. I do have an ISA card with a floppy controller that supports high density, but because the FDC cannot be disabled on this PC, installing the card doesn't work due to that conflict. Here is where my question comes in: is it possible to add support for HD drives through a BIOS extension, like if I used one of my ISA NICs and flash something? Or is this 100% totally on the FDC and if it doesn't support it, it just doesn't support it?
Just wanted to run it past you guys and hear from people far smarter than myself. 😀