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chris@gategart.demon.co.uk (Chris Wilson) writes:

 >I have a 486 dx4/100 with a late type bios which will recognise 
 >drives over 540 M/bs [...] I have got a 
 >Western Digital Caviar 2850 (850 M/bs) which I want to run on 
 >the IDE port alongside the CD Rom, but I just cannot get this 
 >3rd H/drive to be seen .

Well, the obvious question is: does your BIOS have four drive
support? Does it allow entry of four drive geometries in the
setup? If not, you won't be able to use the drive with DOS/WIn
without special drivers. However...

 >I want to use this 3rd drive for os2 and Linux , in order to
 >keep this stuff seperate.

I know Linux will be most happy to use the 3rd (and 4th) drive
without any BIOS support, and I understand OS/2 has no trouble
either. So did you try that? If you don't have either installed,
download a Linux boot/root floppy with secondary port support
compiled in (any set with ATAPI CD-ROM support should do) and
see if the third drive is detected during bootup (you'll see
something like hdc: <some diagnostic stuff>).

If it's detected, I'm sure you'll get it to work without many
problems.

 - Peter Herweijer
   pieterh@sci.kun.nl