Gammitin (Ben) 💾 on Nostr: PC's that have bios released earlier than Aug 1999, have a 8.4 GB HDD size limit, or ...
PC's that have bios released earlier than Aug 1999, have a 8.4 GB HDD size limit, or less. My Pentium II has this and it's both limiting and causes issues with IDE to SD adapters. I have a solution!
A while ago I made a legacy PCI based XT-IDE card for such computers, test time!
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