Mike's PCjr Page

Posted: **Fri Sep 06, 2019 3:53 pm**

I was working on an experiment to see if it would work.

That experiment was if I could get 2 'Hard Drives' on my PCjr's Jr-IDE card, by Hard Drives I mean 2 Compact FlashCards.

I had some success I can get the 2 cards connected, FDisk'ed and Formatted but I could not get the second card formatted to the 64MB that the car is it only formats as about 30MBs.

Its not really a big deal to not be able to use all the CF cards space as 30MBs is more than enough.

Posted: **Mon Sep 09, 2019 6:31 am**

That 32MB limit is probably your DOS version, not the drive, the BIOS, or the jrIDE.
I too have hooked up multiple CF devices and using DOS 5.0 (patched for PCjr) I had 2x8GB devices with a bunch of 2GB partitions at my disposal. Now that's ridiculous.
It's is fun having literally every piece of software that runs on an 8088 CPU available at your fingertips at all times though.

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Dual Hard Drives on my PCjr (well sort of Dual CF cards)

Dual Hard Drives on my PCjr (well sort of Dual CF cards)

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