bestemor wrote on 2021-12-09, 13:05:
TrashPanda wrote on 2021-12-09, 03:20:
Also picked up a Promise Sata 300 TX4 PCI to add some sata ports to the system, IDE to Sata adaptors give me migraines.
Why ? (genuinly curious)
I have had varying degrees of success with them, 90% of the time its that the motherboard simply cannot get along with the sata to ide conversion which leads to issues with windows98/DOS. Other times its that the sata drive itself throws errors when connected and refuses to work in a way that makes it usable.
Weirdly I can take the misbehaving card put it into a different setup and have it work beautifully, due to the conflicts with older hardware I now avoid them for older builds and either use a CF to IDE card, SD > CF > IDE setup both of which work amazingly well or I buy a PCI Sata add on card and use that. (SD to CF adaptors are amazing, sd cards being plentiful and cheap makes them my main goto)
My suspicion is that the older the hardware and OS running on it is the less room you have for weird IO conflicts, could also just be the quality of the adaptors too, most come from china and we all know how hit or miss the quality is from there.
I wonder how difficult it would be to buy the parts for one and build it yourself, might be a fun little side project.