BIOS upgrade cards

[Richard A. Cini]

All:

 

            I have an old Compaq 386 that I use for various tasks in the
shop. The Compaq BIOS has a fixed hard drive table and no "type 47 - user"
entry. So, I just used whatever I had for a drive in stock and I picked the
entry closest to the drive size.

 

This brings up an interesting query. I remember way back when, people sold
BIOS upgrade cards that provided a BIOS extension so that you could use hard
drives not originally designed for the computer. What were these boards
called?

 

Rich 

Rich Cini 
Collector of classic computers 
Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project 
Web site:  <http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/>
http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/ 
/************************************************************/