8-bit IDE hard drives, controllers

From: Jim Leonard <trixter_at_oldskool.org>
Date: Thu Feb 24 00:49:04 2005

Eric J Korpela wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:37:12 -0600, Jim Leonard <trixter_at_oldskool.org> wrote:
>
>>My apologies; I was indeed referring to an 8-bit ISA bus interface card that
>>claims to work with "modern" (ie 16-bit) IDE drives up to a size of 540MB.
>>16-bit ISA bus cards are quite plentiful, but 8-bit ISA bus cards of this
>>nature (that interface to modern drives) are fairly rare. If the card works as
>>advertised, I will report back here.
>
> Is this the Acculogic sIDE-1/16? I've used a couple, and they typically work.

No, mine says "SILICON VALLEY COMPUTER 8 BIT HARD DISK - ADAPTER ADP50L (C)
1991" on the card. I am pretty sure I looked up the documentation before I
bought it and looked legit... Did I buy a lemon?
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