Off hand, I wonder if the 486 doesn’t support logical block addressing in the
BIOS (or its not enabled). Modern machines (and those of a Windows 95 vintage)
do not use CHS addressing (cylinder, head, sector) any longer.
SD cards usually don’t return Sector errors because of the dynamic remapping
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 09:39:57PM +, W2HX via cctech wrote:
> Thanks for previous help on this project. I am working on an old 486 computer
> and I have replaced a 40 pin IDE hard drive with this SD adapter...
> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07G29TZPS/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie
On Fri, 26 Jun 2020, W2HX via cctech wrote:
> Thanks for previous help on this project. I am working on an old 486
> computer and I have replaced a 40 pin IDE hard drive with this SD
> adapter...
> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07G29TZPS/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Th
On Sat, 27 Jun 2020, W2HX via cctech wrote:
> Could it be related to the fact that it is a 2GB SD card and I believe
> IDE controllers of that day could only address something like 500MB?
Except for a few sophisticated caching host bus adapters and ATA RAID
controllers that presented their own
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Subject: Re: IDE-SD adapter question
Off hand, I wonder if the 486 doesn't support logical block addressing in the
BIOS (or its not enabled). Modern machines (and those of a Windows 95 vintage)
do not use CHS addressing (cylinder, head, sector) any longer
On Sat, 27 Jun 2020 at 02:30, W2HX via cctech wrote:
>
> Could it be related to the fact that it is a 2GB SD card and I believe IDE
> controllers of that day could only address something like 500MB?
It could well be, yes.
> Should I consider trying to partition the SD card into a 500MB partitio
a possible solution might be IDE-CF card for the 486 and maybe a
corresponding USB-CF for my daily PC for file transfer?
Eugene
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On 27/06/2020 16:34, W2HX via cctech wrote:
I am not opposed to going to CF, but I have no other computers that have a CF
port, thus I have no way to move files onto this 486 computer.
That well known auction site lists CF->PC Card, CF->SATA, CF->laptop
40-pin IDE and CF->ATA adapters for p
Hi Eugene,
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 09:39:57PM +, W2HX via cctalk wrote:
> Hi all,
> However, I do get errors "sector not found" and if I A)bort I get INT 24
> error. I am trying to get windows 95 installed and this is certainly
> preventing that.
> In the BIOS settings I have the hard drive
On Sat, 27 Jun 2020, W2HX via cctech wrote:
> Peter and Maciej. Thank you very much for the input. I don't believe
> this BIOS supports anything other than CHS. At least I don't see a way
> to toggle between CHS and LBA. Is this what I should be looking for? An
> option to enable LBA mode?
II
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Subject: Re: IDE-SD adapter question
Hi Eugene,
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 09:39:57PM +, W2HX via cctalk wrote:
> Hi all,
> However, I do get errors "sector not found" and if I A)bort I get INT 24
&g
Eugene,
> Jonas, I am using an SD card, not CF because I need to move files from a
> laptop to this computer using the SD. Having said that, I suspect
> everything you said is still true. I don't have access to any linux. But
> do you think I could make a 300MB partition (for example) on the SD
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