[rescue] IDE SSDs? I never knew...

[Todd Vernon]

IDE to Compact flash adaptors work great in the PC World, use many of
them.  In the Sun world it way more complex.  I put weeks into getting a
Sun Ultra 5 to work with anything with no luck.  The biggest problem I
never solved was writing the disk label to the “disk”.  The card had to
support CHS mode and most don’t.  Even ones I found that said they did
would not work.  They also have to be industrial as the Solaris installer
had to see the card a fixed disk.  Solved that but the never got past the
disk label.


Todd Vernon
Entrepreneur | Investor
Email: todd at toddvernon.com
LinkedIn: toddvernon <https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddvernon/>


On Jun 27, 2024 at 10:35:39 AM, Lionel Peterson via rescue <
rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:

> So I was watching a retro computing video and the 'host' mentioned
> deciding NOT to put an SSD in a 20 year-old 486 laptop, and it got me
> wondering... are there IDE SSDs?
>
> Yes, there are - I never knew about them!
>
> Apparently you can just go on eBay or Amazon and pickup a brand new IDE
> SSD, like this one:
>
> KingSpec 32GB 2.5 inch PATA/IDE SSD, MLC Flash SM2236 Controller Internal
> Solid State Disk
>
> https://a.co/d/07g9igRs
>
> At a little over a $1/GB it's not *terribly*expensive... but I have to
> ask, has anyone used such a drive in, say, an old sun workstation 5 or 10?
>
> I don't have any ide-based workstations, but boy if I did, I think I'd be
> trying this out.
>
>
> Ken
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