First post, by BLockOUT
I was playing around with an old motherboard with a CF to IDE card and also with an sintechi SD to IDE adapter
both of them refused to boot, disk was detected on boot but no matter what setting i chose in bios (LBA, automatic, user) etc it always said there was a missing operating system, tried all combinations. and OS was not missing because i tried the same adapters and cards with a k6-2 machine and both of them booted nicely to DOS.
So i did it the old way, using a dos 6.22 boot disk and fdisk and found out that the CF and the SD card had 2 partitions (don´t know why) when it should only have one partition but the win10 software i used to format these cards and set them as bootable for DOS was something my motherboard was not too happy about.
So after formatting using a dos boot floppy and after installing DOS the old way the CF card and the SD card became fully bootable with my motherboard.
Anyway that story is only for people that had issues making CF and SD card adapters bootable on an old computer.
This thread i opened is because i wanted to know what is the amount or maxium size that the 486 can take for an HDD, because i noticed that my SD card was 2gb and fdisk only accepted it as a 1gb maxium. And i wanted to know if there is a workaround about this, in order to increase the limit maybe to 4gb maxium.