Bob, at 08:42 on Jun 19 1996, you wrote to Keith Richardson...

BL> I'd like a CD too, which means I'll have three drives, so I thought I'd buy 
BL> a VLB card that does four drives and stick the CD on its own cable.  Will 
BL> this work?

Absolutely.

BL> Can I enable LBA and format the big-mutha that way, but still use the 500Mb 
BL> drive formatted as it is?

Yep. 

BL> Will the 500Mb format LBA, or does that only work above 1024 heads?

If you do a HD auto-detect, you'll see that the Award BIOS gives you both
LBA and NORMAL options, even for drives which total less than 1024*16*63.

BL> I won't be using the CD much anyway, but I want two hard drives and
BL> the CD. I can't do that on my $20 IDE card (can I?).

No, you'll need a card which supports both primary and secondary controller
addresses.  The one I use here does precisely that, as well as supporting
dual buffered 16c550 UARTs (not that it will make any difference to your
internal modem).  Mine is a VLB card, was supplied with EIDE drivers for
DOS and OS/2 (although OS/2 own IDE driver works just as well), and cost me
the grand total of just $23.00.  In fact it was so bloody cheap that I
would have felt guilty about chasing one up at dealer price, so I didn't
even bother.

Regards, Bill
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