<html><body><div dir="ltr">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.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:medium;margin-top:0px"><div style="margin-top:0px;font-weight:bold"><div style="margin-top:0px"><div style="margin-top:0px"><div style="margin-top:0px"><font style="font-size:14px">Todd Vernon</font></div><div style="font-weight:normal;margin-top:0px"><font style="font-size:13px">Entrepreneur | Investor</font></div><div style="font-weight:400;font-size:13px;margin-top:0px;color:rgb(80,0,80)">Email: <a href="mailto:todd@toddvernon.com" target="_blank">todd@toddvernon.com</a></div><div style="font-weight:400;font-size:13px;margin-top:0px;color:rgb(80,0,80)">LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddvernon/" target="_blank">toddvernon</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Jun 27, 2024 at 10:35:39 AM, Lionel Peterson via rescue <<a href="mailto:rescue@sunhelp.org">rescue@sunhelp.org</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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<div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">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?</span><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Yes, there are - I never knew about them!</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Apparently you can just go on eBay or Amazon and pickup a brand new IDE SSD, like this one:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">KingSpec 32GB 2.5 inch PATA/IDE SSD, MLC Flash SM2236 Controller Internal Solid State Disk</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><a href="https://a.co/d/07g9igRs" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">https://a.co/d/07g9igRs</a><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">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?</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">I don't have any ide-based workstations, but boy if I did, I think I'd be trying this out.</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Ken</div></div></div>
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