As the title says. I have a few 486 and 386 projects im working on. However I've only acquired 1 IDE controller card. EBay doesn't seem to have too many to choose from. At least not in the price range I was hoping to spend. Does anyone have some suggestions on how I could get a hold of some of these? Nothing fancy just something does what it's supposed to.
I had a heap of them for sale on eBay multiple times with no one paying interest and they normally float around $10 to 20 a pop shipped. Search eBay for "ISA card" and start scrounging through.
On a far away planet reading your posts in the year 10,191.
Time is your friend in this respect. While you may be lucky enough to find something local on Craigslist or Freecycle, it's just gonna be a waiting game for good deals on Ebay
You think ISA cards are too expensive.. try putting together a VLB system. People want crazy money for simple things like controllers.
Just have to wait and be patient. expand the terms you are searching by.
Don't just go look in the categories as a huge number of listings are put into the completely wrong category.
Thanks for replies guys. I shall go back to scouring eBay. What are some average prices on these things you think?
Try "multi I/O'. And holy shit, 20 bucks is expensive for this. Where I live, these cards can often be found for 100-200rub (less than 5 bucks) as they are extremely common.
You can still get brand new XT-IDE cards I believe. Some of the old sound cards had a IDE part of sorts. They where normally manual setup not P & P so a right pain and often only intended for CD drives. But if you have a CD drive it could free up one IDE space on your motherboard.
You don't need any fancy IDE controllers for ISA. Just get a common goldstar or winbond one, and then get an NIC with a ROM socket so you can install the XT-IDE (AT version) BIOS for large drive support.
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wrote:You don't need any fancy IDE controllers for ISA. Just get a common goldstar or winbond one, and then get an NIC with a ROM socket so you can install the XT-IDE (AT version) BIOS for large drive support.
This sounds interesting. You have any more info or a link to a guide or something?
