On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 11:13:46AM +0200, Jerome Grimbert wrote:
>
> I have found at a local store two (!) different ISA card
> that would provide additional IDE drives for my Q40.
> (ISA is really becoming hard to find !)
>
> But before I buy one of them, is there something particular
> I should check ?
make sure it doesn't have a BIOS ROM. Such cards will most likely
not work or require a nonstandard initialisation seqeunce...
fun disassembling the onboard BIOS.
Also beware of IDE cards that promise to solve all your problems
with HD's larger than XXX, same problem here, just another
indication of the problem above.
> I had a look at one of them, it provide 2 IDE as well as 2 floppy.
> Would it be a problem ?
should not be any problem, usually one or both controllers can
be disabled anyway.
> The IRQ setting is by jumper, either IRQ 14 or IRQ 15, is that ok ?
fine.
> The price is about 260 FF ( that 25 �, or 40 Ecus/Euros).
> Is-it normal price, or can any of the dealer provide me with a
> cheaper and warranted solution
seems like a good price. Also the relatively low price means it
probably won't contain any of the horrors mentioned above ;)
Bye
Richard
