Ben,
What brand is the computer? What kind of case is it in?
Ben Hood wrote:
>
> I have gotten a 486 off the university and I would like to get into the
> bios setup. A few months ago I had a different computer with a
> similar bios, and was told how to use debug to get into it. I'm pretty
> sure it was someone on this list. Can you please refresh my
> memory?
I would try all the normal stuff first, like pressing F1 or F2, or
whatever after the scsi bios comes up.
>
> This machine also has an ISA SCSI card with a full height 5.25
> inch 1 gig harddrive! (ie twice as high as the average CDROM
> drive.) Previously the biggest (physically) hdd I'd seen was a
> BigFoot.
Really? Bigfoots are flat! I have several Full height drives, 2 3xx
meg drives and a 9 or 10 gig differential SCSI drive. I don't recall
the exact size becasue it isn't in use at the moment, and my contollers
won't use all of it. They will only use 8.x gigs.
What is your SCSI contoller? Adaptec? Buslogic? Symbios? Advansys?
Tecram? Q-logic? DPT?
> DOS and Windows 3.11 will work on this won't it? Caldera DR-DOS
> 7.02's fdisk didn't seem to care about it, even though I previously
> beleived hdds had a 500-odd MB limit on old hardward without a
> disk manager. (or is this only IDE? I've never used SCSI before)
Well, I assume DOS and Windows will run on it. If it is a normal PC.
If it is some sort of Unix box that is Intel base but not really PC
based it might not, but you haven't really told us much.
The drive limits will depend on the scsi bios. It is probably at least
1 gig, if not 8.x gigs. My old 386 with its on-board Adaptec AHA1520
SCSI could use 1 gig drives.
I don't know too much about IDE limits, I can't get close enough to them
becasue of the smell :-) I use only SCSI for hard drives. I do use IDE
for CD-roms sometimes, mainly because when I bought them I was really
new to cd-roms.
One very nice thing about SCSI drives is being able to low level format
them!!
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
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