11 Aug
2008
11 Aug
'08
12:59 p.m.
On 10 Aug 2008 at 14:11, Hollandia at ccountry.net wrote:
One of my machines is an old Packard-Bell Legend 610
machine, to which I am
trying to fit a second hard drive.
The machine will not recognize any modern (or semi-modern) hard drive I have
attempted to fit. I have tried various master/slave combinations, to no avail.
My guess is that this is due to the BIOS being of am early type. The BIOS
chip is a socketed DIP package and the lettering on it is too faded to read.
The screen boot-up display is this:
Given that this is a 486, I don't think that the BIOS is your
problem. I've used OPTI chipset 486s with two drives with no
problem.
What kind of IDE cable are you using to hook up the second drive? If
it's an 80-conductor (UDMA) cable, then it's likely that the old IDE
controller can't see the drive. You need the 40-conductor cable.
You may also have to jumper the drive to restrict it to 8GB or less
(some drives can do this).
FWIW,
Chuck