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Juergen Weiss wrote:
> 
> I have a NB 40i with PRI and MICA DM18 software 3.3p7 and want to put
> a harddisk in it. What do I need?
> 
> 1. Which harddisk
> 2. Are there jumpers on the motherboard to change?
> 3. What additional software do I need?
> 4. Is there any docu for a harddisk in a NB
> 
> I would appreciate any help
> 
> TIA Juergen

1. just about any IDE or EIDE disk will work, but only 500 mb is
supported, you'll also need an IDE/EIDE controller ISA card. It can be
set to primary or secondary. See the IRQ to 14 or 15 accordingly. Use
the fdisk commands to create the filesystem or "setup harddisk".

2. no jumpers to change, there was a new BIOS done, but I'm not sure its
available from ITK, that allows you to boot directly from the hard disk
instead of the floppy (this isn't supported in 3.4, but there was a
patch checked in that could be built if there were any engineers to
build it)

3. if you boot from floppy, you can just use version 3.4 and switch to
hard disk by using boothd as the secondary boot (boot harddisk).

4. There was some documentation prepared, but it may no longer be
available. I'll see if I can find a copy somewhere.

It should also work for the model 40 and the ST both of which have IDE
controllers already available. It also should work on the classic.

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