They all just work without drivers, just pick one that fits better to the machine... maybe also jumper it down to disable parts you won't use as well, so use one you can get that info

I don't think any of these would help as they do not have a BIOS of their own, they rely on the motherboard BIOS.
I believe a 386 won't understand larger drive than about 500MB, not even if it can detect larger drives and display their parameters correctly.

What model card and which size are you using and what head-cylinder-sector geometry it has?

Jepael wrote:

I don't think any of these would help as they do not have a BIOS of their own, they rely on the motherboard BIOS.
I believe a 386 won't understand larger drive than about 500MB, not even if it can detect larger drives and display their parameters correctly.

What model card and which size are you using and what head-cylinder-sector geometry it has?

The Wang has its own IDE controller on the motherboard. It can be disabled via DIP switch, however. I'll have to open up the case and check HDD, but it is around 360MB. The geometry is written on the drive, thankfully.

So I should be looking for a controller card with its own BIOS? I'm interested in the XTIDE, but I wanted to check if I already had a card that would work.

You can allways use a drive overlay, to simulate/emulate those harddrive settings (the geometries).
That is what I did with my Unisys 286, that has a phoenix BIOS and had MFM drive in it originally.
What I did, was that I set the drive number to the highest in the BIOS, and installed DDO on a 640mb disk.
I only had to disable COM/LPT ports and Floppy on the 16bit IDE controller, as the motherboard had
all these onboard. I actually did only have the IDE port enabled on the controller.

EDIT:
Test the Goldstar first... It seem's to be the most compatible brand, according to reports on the net.

You may want to test if any of the controllers provide a 16550A UART as it's a nice to have feature for high speed serial transfers.