On 2008-03-29, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have my old IBM ValuePoint 486 that has a bios that really only likes > drives under 512 MB. It has worked with one 8 GB drive, but not another > seemingly identical WD 8 GB drive, yet alone a new-off-the-shelf 80 GB > PATA drive. The IBM bios has no adjustability (as does the Award bios), > but instead just displays the size of the hard drive found. If it > displays a size, it will boot from it, if not, it declares a hardware > error and won't boot from anything. > > I wonder if a 512 MB CF card in a PATA-CF adapter would be a solution in > this case. The box would likely do remote-logging anyway. > > Does a CF card in a PATA-CF adapter look just like a HD, bootable and > all, to old BIOS?
Yes, totally. I think this has a fairly good chance of success. Only thing I've found that refuses to boot from CF in a converter so far is my X40 (if anyone has any tips on that, please send them my way :-)
