On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 01:51:00 GMT Paul Crable <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I currently operate a Packard Bell 486DX-25. It has a 126 Mbyte HDD.
>>I'd like to replace it or augment it with a second drive. The BIOS
>>appears to support a variety of drives, the largest of which is 300
>>Mbytes. Unfortunately, I cannot find any drives on the market with a
>>capacity that low. My options appear to be:
>> 1. Get an external HDD that runs from the parallel port
>> 2. Find a used drive of the proper size
>> 3. Replace the BIOS with one that supports larger HDD's.
>> 4. Do without
>> 5. Buy another computer
>>None of these is an attractive solution.
>>Actually, the 126 Mbytes is adequate in size; my concern is that once
>>the drive fails the computer becomes worthless.
>>Do any of you have any other ideas?
Most BIOS's have one or two choices in the drive setup for a user defined
HD parameters. Go into you BIOS and scroll through the various drive types
and see if there is a type 47 or 48 (IIRC). Unless somebody has already
defined one before (unlikely) you can then proceed to input the parameters
of whatever drive you are installing. Of course some larger drives might
not work to their full capacity if the BIOS does not support them (mostly
drives more than 540 megs).
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
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