captaincranky
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Oh sure, blame it on all XP. We both know a single core P-4, with PATA drives, or even SATA 1 HDDs, never did anything in a big hurry
Microsoft begins cleanup of legacy drivers from Windows Update
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Ben Myers
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Equally braindead. 100x faster to examine the hardware first, then load the required drivers.
BadThad
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How many installs of NT did you perform in your life?
Ben Myers
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Numerous. I go back a long way. Before I took a Windows 1.03 course with an appearance by bombastic Balmer, there was MS-DOS. Oddly, I still work with DOS, supporting a company that runs MS-DOS to control expensive factory machines. Did you ever see a Pentium 100 system boot MS-DOS from an SSD? Pretty fast.
BadThad
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Pentium 100, NO, I've never used an SSD on that low of a level CPU. It must load and work like lightening!
Ben Myers
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Yes, and it's do-able with the right collection of connectors to make DOS think that a modern SSD is an IDE/PATA drive. Client was very impressed and happy that their chip handling machine worked perfectly and they could ship finished product to their customers again.
BadThad
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The connector interfaces they make are mind blowing. SATA-PATA IDE mimic....that's hilarious. Where'd you get the DOS driver? I don't recall, could those PATA chipsets even do 133 MB/s with a P100? I would imagine the SSD does absolutely nothing except load the cache because the buffer alone is larger than the PATA drives of the day!
The funniest adapter I think I've seen was parallel port to USB. Many years ago I bet my boss such a thing didn't exist. A couple weeks later he brought one in to show me. I wanted to hang it on my wall as a nerd trophy! hahahahahaha
The funniest adapter I think I've seen was parallel port to USB. Many years ago I bet my boss such a thing didn't exist. A couple weeks later he brought one in to show me. I wanted to hang it on my wall as a nerd trophy! hahahahahaha
Ben Myers
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I used a parallel-USB adapter to attach a perfectly working parallel port printer to a computer, getting more life out of a decent printer. Did so several times.
The connector I used for the SATA SSD electronically converts the signal from 44-pin PATA (4-pins for power) to SATA. By design (those smart disk drive designers), PATA register-level commands are a subset of the SATA ones, enough to make it all work for me and my client.
Same client had a 486 system controlling devices very simply through a serial port. 486 system croaked. I replaced it with a late model Dell Optiplex, detuned to run MS-DOS. Delivered the replacement the next day.
I get to do all kinds of unusual stuff, not the repetitive boredom of corporate IT.
BadThad
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Now, THAT is fun IT work! I used to support a few similar systems that used serial ports/DOS to take data from instruments. I am a scientist, the IT guys would always wonder why I wanted to rummage around their junk piles so often. lolololol
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