MS DOS and disk drives maybe OT

From: David Woyciesjes <dwoyciesjes_at_comcast.net>
Date: Wed Mar 19 10:40:01 2003

David Woyciesjes wrote:
>
> Yeah, I'm a little to this thread, but...
>
> I have (for sale/trade) 3 of the SIIG EIDE BIOSAdapter ISA cards. They
> work with the existing IDE controller to break the 528MB partition
> limits. It also directly supports drives up to 8.4GB. I've used the card
> before, and it works pretty good....
>

        Oh, and I forgot to mention... It's all done in the hardware. No disk
manager needed. Which is nice, since I hate OnTrack, it makes moving the
HDD to another PC a bit of a pain...

> Ron Hudson wrote:
> >
> > EZDrive is working well. Thanks all : ^ )
> >
> > On Friday, March 14, 2003, at 08:58 AM, Doc Shipley wrote:
> > > Some BIOSen will only address 1024 cylinders, even if they "see"
> > > more.
> > > OnTrack, Drive Rocket, EZDrive, any of the drive overlay programs will
> > > get around that.
>
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> ---Dave Woyciesjes
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