access to BIOS of DECpc

[Dr. Ido]

At 01:16 PM 10/20/04 +0200, you wrote:
>  Thanks Dan,
>
>I feel a bit silly, but it was late last night is my excuse.
>"DECpc 320P" in Google gave a link to floppy images on a COMPAQ site.
>I will try them this evening, but it is good to know that the DECpc
>"knows" a limited number of hard disks.  If I can 'upgrade' to some
>300 Mb of the 420 Mb capacity it is still better than the 40 Mb that
>I have available at this point.

If none of the drive types in the BIOS are a close match for the HDD you
want to use you could use a disk manager.  

>From memory they are still available on the Maxtor and Seagate websites,
but of course those version only work with Maxtor/Seagate HDDs.  There were
commercial versions that weren't restricted to specific HDDs, but I
wouldn't know where to find them. 

I've used them before when I've had no other option, they work ok with
DOS/Win9x, no idea about other OS's.