Speaking of CF cards. Take a tour around on youtube. Make shure to spot how many different CF cards that are used. 😉
Anyway...
The SATA to IDE converters are cheap too. They work great (some of them). Just make shure to use Seagate harddrives.
This seatools thing just works, no issues there. Well... You need a more modern machine, as I have not been able to
run it on a Pentium-III. Something about the program, using technology found in P4 and onwards.
I am in the process of gathering hardware, in order to test out the compatibility of different storage solutions on my
old Unisys PW/2 Series 300 workstation. Wich is an old 80286 machine.
In this process, I am going to test plain normal harddrives, CF-Cards and finally a SCSI solution.
I will be posting my findings in that tread that I have made for my machine.
The reason being for this, is that I simply do not trust that old MFM harddrive anymore. Shure it is an old 20mb
miniscribe drive, with no bad sectors and no wierd and/or hissing noises. Works great.
I simply do not trust that thing, due to it's age. Will keep it though, because the machine has to have the
original parts ready, if reinstallation is needed. Yeah... Going to test with a 32mb CF-Card.
EDIT:
I would say, that you can do one of the following things:
1: SATA drives....
Buy one of these below here, and get a 500gb to 2tb (whatever the cheapest) seagate harddrive.
Then prepare it with seatools (limiting it to 32gb or lower) and just use it as a normal drive.
If a PATA 128 to 500gb Seagate drive is at hand, just reduce it with seatools.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/OE-SATA-7-15-TO-PATA- … SkAAOSwDNdVyedB
2: SCSI drives...
This is a darn difficult area compared to PATA/SATA and all that. You need to know what you are doing.
On the other hand. I personally think that finding this out by trial and error is half the fun of it all. 😁
You can not break it, it just does not work untill you discover stuff like the controller in question, does
not like booting on LUN-1 to 6. As it actually only like to boot HDD's off LUN-0... Minor setbacks... 😉
3: CF-Cards...
Just get something like the stuff below and start tinkering with it. Personally I have no experience
with this technology. As why I am going to check it out in the next couple of months.
It looks easy compared to SCSI, for what I have read and seen on youtube. Feeling positive here.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sac … =cf+ide&_sop=15
And the card...
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sac … sh+card&_sop=15
There are some pretty cheap card's there. If you only want 500+/- megabyte as the maximum storage.
Just pick whatever you want, ass long as it is cheap. You can allways go for something better once
you know you'r way around this technology. 😉
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