Hi everyone!
I have an old Portable PC that I put a 2MB memory card in, along with an
EGA card, sound card, and some other stuff. I'm doing my best to max it
out. Anyway, I'm having some trouble with hard disks. I have two hard
disk controllers: a Seagate ST02 SCSI/Floppy controller, and a Juko Labs
D16-X IDE controller. Now both of these cards work okay, except they
recognize some strange sizes for the disks. The only disk that seems to
show up correctly is a Quantum LP105S...the others I tried, all bigger
than a gig, are either not recognized, or recognized with the wrong
size. This is also the case with the IDE controller - everything is
recognized at 10MB. I purchased an LBA PRO card for my machine hoping
to overcome the large disk size problem, but all it does is freeze the
machine...however, if I remove the 8088 and replace it with a NEC V20, I
get the banner for the hard disk drive card, and THEN the machine
freezes.
So my questions are:
1. Does anyone know a good solution for putting a large drive in an XT,
while still leaving it an XT?
2. Should I leave the V20 in? I've heard it has compatibility issues
with some programs, but I'm not solid on my information.
Regards,
Julian