Questions tagged [ide]
IDE storage devices, cables, and drivers; also known as PATA or Parallel ATA.
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386 laptop: reads MBR, cannot boot DOS 6.22
I am trying to boot 386 laptop from a CF card. I've prepared image by installing DOS 6.22 in VirtualBox, and then burning image to a CF card.
Image boots just fine in VirtualBox.
CF card with the ...
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When was "Cable Select" introduced for IDE devices?
Conventional IDE (or parallel ATA) controllers support two devices per controller; these are designated Master and Slave, and need to be configured as such with jumpers on the devices.
In later years,...
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How to read a 104 MB Conner hard drive from 1990
I am trying to get text files from an old 386SX computer running PCDOS 5.0. I believe the file system is FAT16.
The hard drive specifications are:
Conner Peripherals MODEL (CFS SERIES) CP3104
100 MB
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