Hardware compat with Fc8

[Maurice Hilarius]

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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