It's called EZ-Drive, and no, Linux doesn't need it. It does,
however, work fine with it. OTOH, if nothing IDE works well, I recommend
an AHA1542 or AHA1520 SCSI controller. For that machine, you don't need
anything faster, and they're cheap.
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Matt Housh email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MicroComputer Specialist University of Tulsa
Engineering and Natural Sciences
"Pardon me, stewardess. I speak Jive."
On Wed, 6 May 1998, Thomas Underhill wrote:
> I think that Western digital bundles software with their hard drives that
> lets older pc's see large hard drives. I used to have it when i had an old
> 486 box myself. I can't remember what its called, but you may have some
> luck looking on their website.
>
> /thomas
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Whipple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wednesday, May 06, 1998 7:49 PM
> Subject: ISA SCSI for Old 486?
>
>
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I have an old Digital 486DX33 low profile box that I'd like to use Linux
> >with... the problem is it has a standard IDE disk controler on-board.
> >It can't see all of a larger EIDE disk, and I need at least 2GB to use.
> >I assume the 500MB limitation is in the old IDE controler and adding a
> >SCSI card would cure that problem. Anyone know of a good ISA SCSI card
> >that works well with Linux, or, better, where I could get one? Haven't
> >seen any on any Web sites that sell relatively new equipment..
> >
> >Any ideas on how to get the old box to see all 2GB of an EIDE disk I
> >have would also do the trick.
> >
> >Thanks for any info.
> >
> > -Fred
> >
> >
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