What's your coolest ISA card?( was Re: IBM 5150 PC)

From: Master of all that Sucks <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Wed Aug 8 17:09:44 2001

It was indeed done with IDE drives. There was a full length Microchannel
card (I forget what it was called) that had a single IDE channel and two
2.5 (or was it 3.5 1") HDDs on it.

Peace... Sridhar

On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Tony Duell wrote:

> > drive right there on the card with its provided screwholes. I think it
> > would be even cooler to combine a card like that with a really simple IDE
> > controller, and have the whole setup and drive on one card there.
>
> Isn't that what used to be called a 'hardcard'? I've certainly seen ST506
> controllers on a frame with a 3.5" ST506 drive, the whole thing plugging
> into an ISA slot. I would be very suprised if it was never done with IDE
> drives...
>
> -tony
>
Received on Wed Aug 08 2001 - 17:09:44 BST