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DTC EIDE BIOS CARD - Allows older PC's to use large drives!




Need your advice on "DTC EIDE BIOS CARD - Allows older PC's to use large 
drives!"

Got some e-mail from the "Closeout Specials from Dalco" e-mail list I am on.
The item below interests me.  Do you know anything about it?  In particular,
is DTC a brand or a type?  Any idea what the max. limit hard drive it would
support?  I'm figuring this card would max out at 8GB, which is more than
plenty for me.  I've got 4 486/486dx AMI BIOS 1991/1992 motherboards with
all ISA slots I want the card to go in.  How does it work?  Does it disable
the existing BIOS?   Is the card OS independent?  In particular, will it
work fine with RedHat/OpenLinux/Slackware Linux and Net/Free/Open BSD? I
guess all these questions I can ask the sales people.

The biggest question is if that is a good price?  I'm gonna assume it is a
good price.  I wonder if this card has adventages over replacing the BIOS
chip on the motherboard.  Does this card have any other features, like hard
drive controller, or do I have to continue using my existing hard drive
controller card?  Does it provide PnP support like an outright BIOS upgrade
would?

Thanks for any info you can provide!




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DTC EIDE BIOS CARD - Allows older PC's to use large 
drives!
WAS	$19.95
NOW	$15.00
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