Compaq Deskpro 286

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Tue Jun 10 15:04:01 2003

On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Bella Oxmyx wrote:

> Does anybody have a listing of translations for the drive types for a
> Compaq Deskpro 286? (i.e. type , cylinders, heads, sectors) I have
> couple of hard drives I'd like to add, but can't tell what drive type to
> select. The setup disk doesn't have a user definable type.

Sometimes you can get these systems to work with a drive with a geometry
similar to one of the settings. Of course, you will usually lose a little
of the drive's capacity. For the most part, is it extremely difficult, if
not impossible, to install a high capacity drive in these systems due to
the lack of a user definable type. I think at one time there may have been
some aftermarket BIOS implementations available for the older Compaq
systems that added such support, but I've not yet come across one. Another
option would be to use a 3rd party HD controller that has its own BIOS.

-Toth
Received on Tue Jun 10 2003 - 15:04:01 BST