John Grzesiak wrote:
Good information... and while we are close to the subject, I want to
repeat a
query I made a while ago, in case it got missed somehow...
Does anyone know of an IDE paddle card that will work with the SRM on
an AS4100
??? I use my 4100 to play with several loaded systems and think that
somehow it
would be easier to have my main boot on CF disk mounted on a paddle
card. I have
done this with my 164LX, and it works fine, but, the 164LX supports IDE
(not
particularly fast which is why I only boot off of it) directly on the
motherboard, so, SRM needs to support that at least.
I am just wondering is:: Are there any vestiges of the IDE boot code in
the
4100's SRM ??? It would have been nice and expedient to not remove the
code
(and subsequently have to debug the changes) from all the SRM based
machines,
even if DEC/Compaq was not planning on ever using IDE for anything in
those
machines...
I am not adverse to doing the work myself, but, if anyone knows
definitively, it
would be nice. A "No, it won't work at all... find another way..."
works great
too... I just hate wasting time on fruitless efforts. I have little
enough time
to play anymore...
(No more complaints now... I will be quiet on this from here on
out...)...
I will throw a bit of information in here... The LK-13415 PATA control
to SATA
drive adapter has shown some indications that it will work if you can't
get a
SATA paddle card to behave. There are some minor glitches in some SATA
drives
backwards compatibility support, so, I don't think I would be trying to
use
them in any sort of ARRAY, but, having a drive to boot off and have
some
offline storage should be doable. The adapter is about $9 ??? (If I am
remembering right) on eBay... The company name is:: NSIoutlet.com
We have used SATA to ATA adapters with SRM with no issues n a number of
the Samsung and DEC boards.
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