Niels, at 12:49 on Apr 28 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

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

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

Dunno, Rod will likely know.  All my boards have supported LBA here.

BG> What type of CPU are you currently running?

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

You'd notice the speed improvement with an upgrade to even a DX4/120 then.

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

Not really, those Simverters work quite well, and only cost around $22 each.

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

I stayed with VLB because I already had the cards, and didn't want to have
to buy another video card (most PCI boards have embedded EIDE I/O these
days), but you'll certainly be hard-pressed finding one which takes 30-pin
SIMMs, or even a mixture, as they all have 72-pin slots these days.

Regards, Bill

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