XTs and large hard disks

[Joe R.]

At 09:28 PM 8/29/05 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi everyone!
>
>I have an old Portable PC that I put a 2MB memory card in, along with an EGA
>card, sound card, and some other stuff.  I'm doing my best to max it out.
>Anyway, I'm having some trouble with hard disks.  I have two hard disk
>controllers: a Seagate ST02 SCSI/Floppy controller, and a Juko Labs D16-X
>IDE controller.  Now both of these cards work okay, except they recognize
>some strange sizes for the disks.  The only disk that seems to show up
>correctly is a Quantum LP105S...the others I tried, all bigger than a gig,
>are either not recognized, or recognized with the wrong size.  This is also
>the case with the IDE controller - everything is recognized at 10MB.  I
>purchased an LBA PRO card for my machine hoping to overcome the large disk
>size problem, but all it does is freeze the machine...however, if I remove
>the 8088 and replace it with a NEC V20, I get the banner for the hard disk
>drive card, and THEN the machine freezes.
>
>So my questions are: 
>1. Does anyone know a good solution for putting a large drive in an XT,
>while still leaving it an XT?
>2. Should I leave the V20 in?  I've heard it has compatibility issues with
>some programs, but I'm not solid on my information.

   I used a V20 in my old Sanyo and never had a compatiblity problem except
that certain games ran faster and were difficult to control.  FWIW.

    Joe

   Joe


>
>Regards,
>
>Julian
>
>
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