I wonder if this'll work... 486 jobbie

[trencheel303]

no longer required

 

[Rob 80386]

I've had a 10GB drive on a 486, with it being a laptop though i'm not sure if it would work with a standard 3.5in IDE drive

edit: out of curiosity what are you using it for?

 

[Kaouthia]

Only you'll really know if your BIOS will be able to see it or not by testing it.

My old Dell 486 desktop had no problem with a pair of 6.4GB Quantum Bigfoot hard drives in it.

 

[mid_gen]

Plug it in and see. May or may not work...good luck finding a BIOS update though

What is it for? You can get p2-3 based laptops for nothing these days that are much more useful!

 

[mrdaviesuk]

I've got a box of old laptop HDD's knocking around in my loft ... I'll have a looksee when I get home tonight if you would prefer to replace like with like?

 

[trencheel303]

thats very generous of you

 

[Yv]

My OH had a 486 desktop here when i first arrived, it wouldnt recognize anything bigger than 2gb, so as the drive was 10, it was partitioned in 5 sections - he still recalls not thinking he would ever fill it

 

[Kaouthia]

You have to run it in LBA mode if it's over 2GB, if I remember right.

 

[deadkenny]

Got an old 486 laptop I use as a console for my server. Think the hard disc in it is around 40Mb

Do you need the hard disc, or could you get away with just running everything off a floppy disc? . At least if you just want to run DOS only.