> NP> Thank you for the posting, but I had already seen it.

 > No problem.  I think he's sold it now anyway.

I saw he had about 3 buyers.

 > NP> I was advised that a 1.2G  is only of use on my machine if the guy could
 > NP> have supplied Disk Manager for that particular drive (or maxtor drives)
 > NP> I have DM for WD drives (I think)

 > Most HDs over 540Mb come with their own drivers these days, and
 > those that don't can generally use one of the generic drivers
 > anyway.

Aah... And where would one be likely to find these generic drivers??


 > NP> The price was great, and I would have got it like a shot if I could have
 >
 > NP> used its full capacity.

 > What type of CPU are you currently running?

 386/33  Dunno the brand of CPU but it is at least 6 years old.

 > If it will work in the
 > following (and not too many CPUs won't), it might be better economy
 > to upgrade to an LBA-capable motherboard, and take advantage of the
 > much lower prices (per Mb) being asked for the larger drives (1.6Gb
 > WD for $365, for example).

I can see your point, and a change of MB was something that I would have to
consider if I wanted to expand my RAM.

But.....

 > --------------------------------
 > ------------------------------------------
 > For Sale
 > ~~~~~~~~
 > 1 x Soyo 486 Green VLB motherboard, 256Kb cache, 0Kb RAM, ZIF
 > socket, no CPU, uses 4 x 72-pin SIMM modules.  Takes 486SX/DX/DX2/
 > DX4/SL/AMD/Cyrix M7 CPUs to 120MHz.  Has 7 x 16-bit slots and 3 x
 > VLB slots, and takes both 5V and 3.45V CPUs, jumper settable to 25/
 > 33/40/50MHz bus speeds.  Award BIOS auto-detects IDE drives and
 > supports LBA mode.  Only 6 months old, and includes original packing
 > and manual.  Extremely fast and reliable with both OS/2 and Win95.

 > Price:  $100 postpaid.
 > --------------------------------
 > -------------------------------------------

The main problem id that it has no 30 pin slots, which means I would have
to sell my 8x 1meg 30 pin, and purchase 72 pin  stuff to get going again.


 > It's by far the best board I've ever used, but unfortunately, would
 > not run my AMD DX5/133 as a clock quadrupler, only a tripler (IOW,
 > as a DX4/120 only).  I had to buy a new SIS board with (urk!) an AMI
 > WinBIOS to run the DX5, but at least it wasn't a total waste of
 > time, as it overclocked to 160MHz happily.

I think that if I go down the new MB route I would be looking for PCI and
not Vesa, and probably  a SH board thet had both 30 72 pin memory slots.

 > If you're interested, let me know.

Thank you for the offer

 > If not, go fuck yourself.  :)

Beryl is better at that than I am :-)

Cheers
Niels Petersen

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