[geeks] Add on IDE card to repair a PC?

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Bertrand HUTIN <bhutin at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> I'm trying to repair a PIII Slot 1 PC whose disk is dead and the
> primery IDE does seems to work fine. I'm wondering if putting an
> add-on IDE card and disabling this primary IDE would be a good
> way to go. I may even buy a serial Ata card, as I need to buy a
> disk too.

Maybe, but most BIOS I've seen will boot off a SCSI card *if* there is
no IDE HD present (assuming the SCSI controller is BIOS-bootable)...

I assume the primary IDE controller is *not* working fine...

Also, many of the parger Maxtor IDE drives (120 Gig+) have ATA/133 IDE
controllers in the box, and I would guess these were almost *designed*
to override built-in IDE controller.


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Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976

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