New subject: Compaq Portable III HDD replacement. (Was Re: My 386 laptop HD is dead. The solution: an IDE to CF adapter)

18 Jan 2007

On 1/17/07, 9000 VAX <vax9000 at gmail.com> wrote:
...

 After one hour of surfing the internet, I finally bought 4 IDE-CF adapters
 (laptop and desktop versions, $2 each). One for the laptop, one for the
 pentium PC linux router, one for the 386 desktop.

As a pseudo on-topic aside, what do y'all think the chances are of
this working in a machine like a Compaq Portable III or Portable/386?
I've got one with the old 40MB Connor drive still ticking along, but
I'd really like to make sure I can keep the old girl running after it
finally spins down for the last time.

Would I be stuck with a 32MB CF card, or would the BIOS not work with
it at all?  (I've currently got my rebadged P/386 running Linux, for
various uses including serial and Ethernet telnet terminal).

Josef
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