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Re: CD's on older PC's
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Earl Truss <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 10 Nov 1998 07:20:17 -0600
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Yes, I believe that this was true at one time or was true with some BIOS
makes.  However, this was a long time ago and on the very early 386s that I
remember hearing about this problem - the very first ones to support IDE
drives.

At 11:17 PM 11/9/98 +1100, you wrote:
>A friend told me today that some 386's/486's could not run more than ONE
>physical hard drive ( The CD's are IDE with jumper in place) due to a BIOS
>limitation... which is the first I have heard of that happening...

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