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Brian@rosebery.demon.co.uk (Brian Sheehan) writes:

 >So far I have been told that I can get either an enhanced 
 >card with enhanced bios on the card [... or]
 >I can use the Ontrack software to take care of the drive 
 >size over 540mb and get a standard enhanced IO card. [...]
 >
 >Will this compromise work?

No. The I/O card's drivers will conflict with OnTrack, which means in
most cases that your I/O card will use the default speed of PIO mode 0.
This is exactly as fast (slow) as your current ISA IDE card.

OnTrack v7 will be compatible, but by that time I understand you want
to upgrade to a Pentium/PCI anyway, so that's little help.

For more details, take a look at the "Yet Another" FAQ posted on
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage. It is also available, together with
related material, by FTP from

   ftp.netcom.com:/pub/cl/clau
   ftp.rahul.net:/pub/lps/hard-disk/ya-ata.faq
   ftp.wi.leidenuniv.nl:/pub/faqs

and by WWW from Daniel Tauritz' home page:

   http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~dtauritz/ata.html

Alternatively, you can get it through e-mail by sending me
(pieterh@sci.kun.nl) an empty mail with "ATA-2 FAQ please" in the
Subject line. Don't forget the please: the mailserver insists on
politeness ;^)

Most relevant are Q1.5, 2.2, 2.7, 2.14.

 - Peter Herweijer
   pieterh@sci.kun.nl