2 Feb
2006
2 Feb
'06
6:44 a.m.
Quoting Chris M <chrism3667 at yahoo.com>:
You're not saying a modern (internal) ATAPI
cd-rom
(or dvd-rom?) would operate in such a machine with an
IDE card? I guess I could just try it - had my 5170
out not hours ago to test my old 80188 based graphics
card (beeeeep beep beep :( ), but I don't know where
my IDE card went.
I think it would work. It just seems out of character for a machine that old.
But then again, loading everything via 1.2MB floppies was a nightmare yesterday
. my data transfer machine is a PCjr with 360K floppies, which made things
interesting. I'll probably put an IDE CD-ROM on it just to make it a little
more useful instead of adding a 3.5" drive. (Or at least see how far I can get
with that configuration before breaking down and adding the 3.5" drive.)
It would be nice to obtain a schematic of one of the
more primitive IDE cards *whistles*. And wouldn't
artwork be nice too ;). Would an 8-bit card take the
place of a 16-bit card in an AT? Presumably yes,
albeit slower I guess. The Acculogic sIDE/16 or
something has all discrete logic, save for a pal or
gal (or 2).
Yes, this would be interesting. I had never realized that IDE was a superset of
ST506. Now I'm thinking of all of the old 8 bit machines I have that could use
an IDE hard disk. I've been trying to graft SCSI cards onto them, but 8 bit
SCSI cards with BIOS aren't exactly common either.