Upgrading early BIOS

On 14 Aug 2008 at 12:36, Jules Richardson wrote: One of the answers that I wanted to convey to the OP was "If you want to (fairly) painlessly increase hard disk storage on an older system, get a SCSI controller and drive." But ISA SCSI controllers are getting harder to find, so that's probably a no-go. IDE is cheap in comparison to SCSI, so that was probably one very good reason why it found wide adoption. If disks were bad, tapes were far worse. There was all manner of mutually-incompatible cheap tape backup out there. We insisted as SCSI being the only tape interface that we would support--there was an ANSI-defined common command set and most of the later units were read-after-write verification. I wonder how many of those old DC2000 carts written on floppytape drives are still readable? And who can still read their Datasonix Pereos tapes? (I've got some Irwin- recorded DC1000s that I really should check for readability one of these days). For us, 4mm DAT was most popular based on media cost, followed closely by Exabyte 8mm. DLT was third, mostly because of very high media cost. Bernoulli and other removable media drives were also very popular. Cheers, Chuck