Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS weirdness with SATA/IDE adapter (was IDE <-> CF adapters)

2021-03-09 Thread dmccunney
On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 4:41 PM Liam Proven wrote: > Installing a CPU upgrade in an old PC was rarely worth the hassle, but > if you replaced a small hard disk (especially if compressed with > DoubleSpace or something) with a big more modern one, and maxed out > the RAM, the performance

Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS weirdness with SATA/IDE adapter (was IDE <-> CF adapters)

2021-03-09 Thread Liam Proven
On Tue, 9 Mar 2021 at 22:28, Jon Brase wrote: > > > On 3/3/21 7:30 AM, Liam Proven wrote: > > Yes. Use a disk manager. It will install a tiny overlay before the OS > > boots and that will allow you to use arbitrarily-large disks without > > problems. (Probably not with Linux, but with DOS, Win9x,

Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS weirdness with SATA/IDE adapter (was IDE <-> CF adapters)

2021-03-09 Thread Jon Brase
On 3/3/21 7:30 AM, Liam Proven wrote: Yes. Use a disk manager. It will install a tiny overlay before the OS boots and that will allow you to use arbitrarily-large disks without problems. (Probably not with Linux, but with DOS, Win9x, OS/2 and maybe even NT). Actually, it looks like, through