I e-mailed it to you yesterday. Did you get it?
If you need any parts, let me know Im about to clear out some. I have a couple SB 16 bit boards that go with a cdrom drive, 486 dx50 board, floppy drives, Etc…tons of memory chips.
This is what’s fun about owning a 486. Upgrading it is like a hobby for me. I’ll hardly mess around with my Pentium, but with the 486, if I ruin something, or want to upgrade, it’s cheap 
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Anyway, I already have an SB 16, I don’t think I need any more floppy drives, but if you have 4 - 4 meg 30 pin sims I might be interested. Thanks.
I might also be interested in an IDE hard/floppy controller card because I e-mailed my address to Astro for a card he said he’d send me, and I haven’t heard back from him yet. Of course, come to think of it, I haven’t heard back from you either for a few days. I wonder if I’ll hear back from any one.
Your card is being shipped tomorrow. I had to locate a site that had the DC 4030 VL2 drivers before I shipped it to you. I also put some 30 pin simms on it for you.
Thanks. I appreciate it. Now as for shipping and handling payment. I could pay you buy using Paypal. According to the web site, you can send money to people even if they don’t have a Paypal account. How does that sound?
Sounds fine let’s go to email and give the thread a rest.
Howyadoin,
Correct me if I’m wrong, but VLB motherboards only had 1 VLB slot, right? If your existing video card is VLB, you’re SOL unless you have an ISA video card (which will have much poorer performance than a VLB video card…
This all assumes no PCI/MCA/EISA slots exist…
God, I love abbreviations. If it weren’t for computers, I’d have ended up in the military…
-Rav
Do you have a single-channel or two-channel controller? Virtually all IDE controllers have two channels, and each channel supports two drives. If there are two separate connectors on the controller/motherboard, there are two channels capable of supporting four drives between them. You’ll have to set one of the drives to “slave”, though.
I’m using an ISA video card and ide controller.
My card supports 2 hard drives and 2 floppy drives.
Many early 486 MB’s did not integrate IDE-floppy IO on the MB but used adapter cards and often these cards had a single IDE and single floppy connector allowing for only two devices each. Remember, that this was very early 90’s and just prior to IDE CD’s becoming a popular mass market item. The two IDE connectors were mainly intended for two hard drives and who could want more than that?
True, true. Of course now with 15 gig hard drives and up, then at least for a home PC, who even needs 2 hard drives any more?
heh my dad had 4 hard drives hooked up on his 386 one for each member of the family and the kids
of course once we see the advent of the one gig program well see 2 and 3 hard drives come back
Good point.
Nope, some had as many as three. My last 486 system had VLB video, multi I/O (Serial/parallel/game/fdd/ide), and SCSI cards installed. The multiI/O card also had only one IDE channel. Back then, two channel cards were pretty rare. They didn’t get common until PCI IDE appreared, followed by the second generation Intel Pentium chipsets. CD-ROM drives used either SCSI or a proprietary interface prior to about 1993 or 1994.