Reply 16640 of 27550, by creepingnet
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Last night was experiment time - messing with a $10 mSATA to 44pin IDE kit - trying out some old mSATA drives from old Dell laptops in this thing on my various 486 computers (basically the DX4-100 and the 2 Versas). Initially the plan is to try this out and see if I can get it working on the NECs, and if so, then get it working on both and get a second mSATA to 44pin adapter and build a second 128GB SSD for the other Versa. I did get it working on the DX4-100 desktop just fine - FreeDOS 2.1 installs in like....10 minutes with a full install, and boots almost instantaniously - the Versas....well....that's another story.
Somewhere along the way the DX4-100's 5.25" Mobile rack broke (Lian-Li RH27 unit), so I had to pull the IDE and power cables and run them direct to the drive (sigh). Looks like another repair on the horizon.
Same drive, same DDO (Seagate's, a version of OnTrack I believe), same O/S, neither Versa can find the boot sector or the drive. Planning to try out some Samsungs over the weekend and see how they work, if not, might just throw the SSD into the main box.
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