Re: OT? IDE flash drive in OLD pc.


"Jim Stewart" <jstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Not Really Me wrote:
Pardon if this is off topic too far.

We would like to replace the hard drive in a '93 vintage PC with one of
those little IDE flash drives that plugs right into the mb connector.

The first attempt failed. The bios is old enough that it won't
auto-select the drive so the params have to be entered manually.
Unfortunately the US dist doesn't understand the question on drive
geometry.

Does anyone know of an IDE flash drive that will work in an old pc (pre
LBA capable)?

I've had good luck using Mesa Engineering IDE
to CompactFlash adapters in very old PCs.


Jim,

Thanks for the response. We will give that a try.

Scott


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