22 Jan
2008
22 Jan
'08
6:20 a.m.
Chris M wrote:
--- Doc Shipley <doc at mdrconsult.com> wrote:
Granted I haven't tried every card out there, but in my experience,
no. Except for a couple that had 1024+ cylinder support, I don't
remember ever having an IDE card with BIOS extensions optional.
I also forgot to explain the medalist requirement; it's the only
known model drive that supports the entire command set used by the RT
firmware and AIX. There's one command (which I never remember) that no
other IDE drive was known to support.
If you can find an ISA IDE/FDC card without
serial and parallel and
without PC "BIOS entensions", a Seagate IDE Medalist
under 2GB will work
fine. I've got one running in mine.
couldn't you just disable all the unnecessary stuff,
including the bios extensions? of course everyone would opt for an authentic
original rodent, but how hard could it be to rig
virtually any mouse to work on, IWT, any computer?
I hope so, and that somebody with that kind of skills gets around to
it soonish. I, myself, like *having* the original mouse and *using*
something comfortable, like a PS/2 Marble.
Doc