Promise PCI EIDE controller.. You can get them on ebay for under $10
6hours left, its at $2 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3442763110&category=41994 There are more.. I searched for promise ide and found those.. Thats probably the best suggestion I have. -miah On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 12:33:01PM -0500, Kenneth J. Goncalves wrote: > EIDE drive in a Pent II system with old bios; compant is LONG out of > business. > > I have a western digital EIDE 30 gig hd. I runs great in my older P1 > machine. > > REcently (as I got laid-off, and had to turn in my nice P4 laptop on the > way out the door) I went to put it into one of my Pentium II machines > that have WAY more memory. > > SURPRISE, the bios in the PII is actually older and doesn't recognize the > hard drive...I see no indication of being able to flash upgrade the bios > either. > > Years ago there used to be two ways around this, software and hardware. > Since I don't want to reformat the drive I'm leaning toward hardware, > dependant upon cost. > > Any suggestions? > > p.s. Yes, new purchase is kind out of the question at this point. > > > > Ken > > > ******* > > Kenneth J. Goncalves, CNE5 > > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 12 Bass Lake Road > Amston, CT 06231-1703 > > > --- > Send mail for the `bblisa' mailing list to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'. > Mail administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'. --- Send mail for the `bblisa' mailing list to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Mail administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'.
