On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:29:41 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >I have my old IBM ValuePoint 486 that has a bios that really only likes >drives under 512 MB. It has worked with one 8 GB drive, but not another >seemingly identical WD 8 GB drive, yet alone a new-off-the-shelf 80 GB >PATA drive. The IBM bios has no adjustability (as does the Award bios), >but instead just displays the size of the hard drive found. If it >displays a size, it will boot from it, if not, it declares a hardware >error and won't boot from anything. > >I wonder if a 512 MB CF card in a PATA-CF adapter would be a solution in >this case. The box would likely do remote-logging anyway. > >Does a CF card in a PATA-CF adapter look just like a HD, bootable and >all, to old BIOS?
The one I use does. Rod/ /earth: write failed, file system is full cp: /earth/creatures: No space left on device
