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sb16/awe32 ide support

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First post, by noshutdown

Posted on 2014-05-19, 15:25

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suppose i get a 386 or 286 board(not really likely though) but don't have any isa ide card, can i connect a hdd to the sb16/awe32's ide cdrom port? and would it support lba mode or limited to 512mb chs?

Reply 1 of 2, by PeterLI

Posted on 2014-05-19, 16:02

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No. 😀 You need an ISA I/O card.

Reply 2 of 2, by bristlehog

Posted on 2014-05-20, 06:53

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IDE ports on sound cards are slow and non-bootable.

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