Identify ESDI Drive

Posted by ingve on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @06:52AM
from the os2museum.com dept.

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Re:Identify ESDI Drive by metadat on Friday May 27, 2022 @07:43PM (#31536198)

Some old circuit boards are so beautiful, I love when they're jam-packed full of microchips over every possible surface.

The common hardware of today is comparatively dull and mundane.

I humbly posit that the old PCI cards from the 90s and early 2000s with RAM expansion slots were (are?) about as sexy as a circuit board can get .^^.

And let's not forget the legendary 3DFX Voodoo 5 6000, which is just..

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Re:Identify ESDI Drive by credittw2021 on Friday May 27, 2022 @10:04PM (#31536975)

My personal fave are the old Gravis UltraSound ISA boards. Red PCBs almost a decade before anyone cared.

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Re:Identify ESDI Drive by mmastrac on Friday May 27, 2022 @03:23PM (#31533754)

This blog is full of interesting stories - the secret history of ATAPI was previously on HN as well.

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Re:Identify ESDI Drive by userbinator on Saturday May 28, 2022 @12:51AM (#31537699)

I wonder if a modern OS would be able to access that drive if the controller was plugged into a PCIe-ISA bridge.

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