4 May
2002
4 May
'02
8:56 a.m.
From: Fred deBros <fdebros(a)verizon.net>
Is there an ISA card that has the IDE irq assignable to
any IRQ?
Older ones did. IDE IRQs were 15 and 14.
U guessed right: I'd like to stick a secondary ide
drive (CDROM
obviously) into a 486 that has only one ide (IRQ14)drive, but no plug
for a secondary drive, and no, I cannot use the ide cable as it is a
laptop, but yes, it has the bus connected to a dockstation. And yes I
yes you can. I've done it. one of my 486boxen has 3 CDroms and
a 500mb IDE disk. It serves as a CD server running Win95.
Some of the real early 486s the bios was a bit poor but most of the
better ones it's been no problem. FYI: for the CDrom you simply do
nothing at the bios level and it's the OS that has to find and install
the CDrom. If the cdrom is a standard the win95 drivers will do though
I've had a few oddballs that I had to use the driver supplied with
the drive.
Allison