On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 13:29:41 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:

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>I have my old IBM ValuePoint 486 that has a bios that really only likes
>drives under 512 MB.  It has worked with one 8 GB drive, but not another
>seemingly identical WD 8 GB drive, yet alone a new-off-the-shelf 80 GB
>PATA drive.  The IBM bios has no adjustability (as does the Award bios),
>but instead just displays the size of the hard drive found.  If it
>displays a size, it will boot from it, if not, it declares a hardware
>error and won't boot from anything.
>
>I wonder if a 512 MB CF card in a PATA-CF adapter would be a solution in
>this case.  The box would likely do remote-logging anyway.
>
>Does a CF card in a PATA-CF adapter look just like a HD, bootable and
>all, to old BIOS?

The one I use does.
Rod/
/earth: write failed, file system is full
cp: /earth/creatures: No space left on device