bollard@hpspkla.spk.hp.com (Lee M. Bollard) (09/29/90)
I'm considering purchase of an IDE drive. Toshiba and Connor being checked out. Any reason not to buy either of these? Can someone clarify: If my bios supports IDE, then I won't have to use DMDRVR.BIN to make things work, and necessitate putting the line in WIN.INI that slows things down (VirtualHDIrq=off) Is this true. I don't want things to slow down in Windows! I will upgrade my bios if necessary. Can I swap my Phoenix for an AMI bios? Are these things interchangeble? Oh, maybe I should clarify a bit.... I'm looking at about a 100meg drive, I have a Gateway 386/20 >1yr old. Thanks for the advice! --------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | Lee Bollard unix: bollard@hpspkla.spk.hp.com | | Hewlett-Packard HPDesk: Lee BOLLARD / HP1000/53 | | Spokane Division Compuserve: 72105,423 | | (509)921-4608 | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------
mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) (10/02/90)
In article <6470006@hpspkla.spk.hp.com> bollard@hpspkla.spk.hp.com (Lee M. Bollard) writes: > >Can someone clarify: If my bios supports IDE, then I won't have to use >DMDRVR.BIN to make things work, and necessitate putting the line in >WIN.INI that slows things down (VirtualHDIrq=off) Is this true. I don't >want things to slow down in Windows! Maybe. DMDRVR.BIN can be used for many purposes: 1) to ease use of > 17 sectors/track with bios. 2) to ease use of > 1024 cylinders with DOS/BIOS. 3) to support multiple partitions under DOSes prior to 3.3. 4) to support BIG partitions under DOSes prior to 3.31/4.xx. -- ___Mark S. Lord__________________________________________ | ..uunet!bnrgate!mlord%bmerh724 | Climb Free Or Die (NH) | | MLORD@BNR.CA Ottawa, Ontario | Personal views only. | |________________________________|________________________|