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$8 PCI-E PATA controller

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First post, by douglar

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https://www.walmart.com/ip/SATA-eSATA-IDE-PCI … -Card/848612578

For $8, I almost feel like I have to try it out. Photos show it has a BIOS.

I'll let you know how it works when it arrives.

Reply 1 of 7, by rasz_pl

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JMB363, plenty on scambay and alliexpress. Im sure someone already tested it here, like this Re: Testing and imaging old IDE/PATA drives

I do not have any CHS only drives on hand (probably have some in storage) to test this on the only PCIE PATA controller I have which is Jmicron JMB363 based . A potential issue with pretty much every PCI or PCIE controller card is the lack of an option to choose the translation mode, so if a drive supports both LBA and CHS, was setup in CHS mode on a legacy machine and is then plugged into a modern controller which sets it to LBA mode, I do not believe it would be readable . IDE controllers managed by the motherboard's BIOS will usually let you set the translation mode, so they would not have an issue .

https://github.com/raszpl/FIC-486-GAC-2-Cache-Module for AT&T Globalyst
https://github.com/raszpl/386RC-16 memory board
https://github.com/raszpl/440BX Reference Design adapted to Kicad
https://github.com/raszpl/Zenith_ZBIOS MFM-300 Monitor

Reply 2 of 7, by douglar

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Ha! What I got in the mail was an DVI-HDMI adapter. Did not expect that at all.

Reply 3 of 7, by Horun

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douglar wrote on 2023-02-03, 00:51:

Ha! What I got in the mail was an DVI-HDMI adapter. Did not expect that at all.

🤣 nice seller. Guess the one review with 1 star out of 5, was correct ;p

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Reply 4 of 7, by rasz_pl

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douglar wrote on 2023-02-03, 00:51:

Ha! What I got in the mail was an DVI-HDMI adapter. Did not expect that at all.

you got free adapter out of the adventure, not bad 😀

https://github.com/raszpl/FIC-486-GAC-2-Cache-Module for AT&T Globalyst
https://github.com/raszpl/386RC-16 memory board
https://github.com/raszpl/440BX Reference Design adapted to Kicad
https://github.com/raszpl/Zenith_ZBIOS MFM-300 Monitor

Reply 5 of 7, by douglar

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rasz_pl wrote on 2023-02-03, 02:27:

Ha! What I got in the mail was an DVI-HDMI adapter. Did not expect that at all.
you got free adapter out of the adventure, not bad 😀

That would have been nice, but no. Walmart wants me to send the adapter back to them and is sending me a shipping label.

Looks like I get nothing but a waste of time.

Reply 6 of 7, by rasz_pl

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😮 maybe try to escalate, clearly they stocked wrong item or third party using their platform is straight up scamming

https://github.com/raszpl/FIC-486-GAC-2-Cache-Module for AT&T Globalyst
https://github.com/raszpl/386RC-16 memory board
https://github.com/raszpl/440BX Reference Design adapted to Kicad
https://github.com/raszpl/Zenith_ZBIOS MFM-300 Monitor

Reply 7 of 7, by Horun

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If it were an "active" DVI-HDMI adapter be worth keeping but my guess is a generic cheap passive type, not like the better Startech active ones (have one some where and actually works great, hmmm where did I put it 🤣)

Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun