ISA/486 Board Question

From: Fred deBros <fdebros_at_verizon.net>
Date: Sat May 4 10:14:58 2002

Well I was not so lucky.
Sticking a isa card in the expansion box even with all it's i/o's
disabled only sec ide enabled with either irq (14 or 15), it wont work,
too bad. Maybe I should try linux to see if it recognizes the cd.

Fred


yes you can. I've done it. one of my 486boxen has 3 CDroms and
a 500mb IDE disk. It serves as a CD server running Win95.

Some of the real early 486s the bios was a bit poor but most of the
better ones it's been no problem. FYI: for the CDrom you simply do
nothing at the bios level and it's the OS that has to find and install
the CDrom. If the cdrom is a standard the win95 drivers will do though
I've had a few oddballs that I had to use the driver supplied with
the drive.

Allison
Received on Sat May 04 2002 - 10:14:58 BST