RE: ISA BIOS Enhancer

1999-11-20 Thread Online Design
ActuallyI had a bigger problem with the machine not accepting the cardno matter what I tried. I used the solution belowthat worked finelinux sees the entire drivejust won't boot from it, obviously. I used EZ-BIOS. I hate 3rd party disk utilities, but I guess everything is some

RE: ISA BIOS Enhancer

1999-11-20 Thread Rev. David P. Giffen
Message- > From: John P. Verel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, November 13, 1999 1:52 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: ISA BIOS Enhancer > > > I use EZ Drive overlay software on my WD 8 gig drive, Phoenix Bios. Red > Hat does a perfect job of readin

Re: ISA BIOS Enhancer

1999-11-13 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
At 08:29 AM 11/13/99 -0500, you wrote: > >I guess that means no :-) > >It's an ISA card that overrides the limitations of older BIOS's, so one can >use a large HDD (in the case of my card, up to 8 GIG) in an old 486. > >At 09:43 PM 11/12/99 -0500, John P. Verel wrote : >>At 06:12 PM 11/12/99 , you

Re: ISA BIOS Enhancer

1999-11-13 Thread John P. Verel
I use EZ Drive overlay software on my WD 8 gig drive, Phoenix Bios. Red Hat does a perfect job of reading the partition table as created by EZ Drive. However, I cannot boot Red Hat from partitions on this drive. I boot from my second drive, and ancient 1.2 gig, with no overlay software. YMMV

Re: ISA BIOS Enhancer

1999-11-13 Thread Online Design
I guess that means no :-) It's an ISA card that overrides the limitations of older BIOS's, so one can use a large HDD (in the case of my card, up to 8 GIG) in an old 486. At 09:43 PM 11/12/99 -0500, John P. Verel wrote : >At 06:12 PM 11/12/99 , you wrote: >>Has anyone ever used a SIIG Bios Enha

Re: ISA BIOS Enhancer

1999-11-12 Thread John P. Verel
At 06:12 PM 11/12/99 , you wrote: >Has anyone ever used a SIIG Bios Enhancer with Linux? What is a Bios Enhancer? -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.