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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Newbie
  • Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:33:22 +0000 (UTC)

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Fephisto III wrote:

I had attempted hooking up the old computer's hard drive as a slave to another
computer so as to download the hard drive version of Basic Linux, but the
plug-ins weren't correct. I then tried using a different hard disk and
hooking
it up as a slave in the old computer, but even that Windows 95 hard disk was
obviosuly too new for the really crappy BIOS.

Can you take the drive out of the 486 and put it into another computer as the only drive on the secondary controller? Then you copy files from C: to D: (assuming only one partition per drive).

486 BIOS can often only handle drives up to 500 (540?) MB.

By 'plug-in's you probably mean whether the drive was set as master or slave. What you have in there now is probably set to 'master' or possibly to 'single'. Sometimes they are the same. You move jumpers, and if you are lucky the drive will have instructions on it (or look them up for that model, online). Probably the Win98drive was also set to master or single and needs to be set to slave to work in a 486, which has only one IDE controller. In a pentium there are two controllers so you can leave the two drives set the way you found them (as single). MA - master SL - slave SG - single. Western Digital Caviar has MA SL and CS (cable select, a different method), but single is not labelled - it is NO jumpers. In a pentium there are probably two IDE cables, one plugged into each controller on the board, usually with two plugs on each cable. If you want to fiddle with hard drive settings, you can set the second drive to slave and the first to master and plug into the same (primary) controller, otherwise you would probably need to unplug a CD-ROM drive temporarily from the secondary controller to plug in the second hard drive as single.

Sindi




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