HDD question

[Philippine Mango]

Do you think one of those HDD controllers from an 8088 will work in a PIII system and would windows detect it?

 

[Rip the Jacker]

No.

 

[Philippine Mango]

Any Particular reason why? Whats probably the max size of an HDD you could fit into a 8088? BTW you wouldn't be using that controller.

 

[cy7878]

the controller you pull out of an 8088 is NOT going to work for the following reasons:

1)P3 and above MBs don't have ISA slots anymore
2)8088 drives are either MFM or RLL formats which typically went up to about 100MB.

bottomline: forget it.

 

[Philippine Mango]

No PIIIs had ISA slots, mine has 1 ISA slot. So in the case that it DOES have an ISA slot would it work? Would windows be able to detect the controller automatically or would I have to install the controller drivers manually? If I wanted to copy data off an old HDD from an 8088 would I be best going about doing this instead? There is no way to copy a 16MB drive easily off an 8088 so..

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Originally posted by: cy7878
the controller you pull out of an 8088 is NOT going to work for the following reasons:

1)P3 and above MBs don't have ISA slots anymore
2)8088 drives are either MFM or RLL formats which typically went up to about 100MB.

bottomline: forget it.

Actually, there is a P4 mobo from super micro that has like 4 of them

 

[cy7878]

Originally posted by: Philippine Mango
No PIIIs had ISA slots, mine has 1 ISA slot. So in the case that it DOES have an ISA slot would it work? Would windows be able to detect the controller automatically or would I have to install the controller drivers manually? If I wanted to copy data off an old HDD from an 8088 would I be best going about doing this instead? There is no way to copy a 16MB drive easily off an 8088 so..

why don't you use a network card and cable?? Also Laplink will work off a serial cable. You can always FTP it also.