creepingnet
Veteran Member
So while in San Jose a couple weekends ago, I bought a SATA to IDE Host Bridge on my first trip to Fry's Electronics to try out some of the excess SATA drives I have laying around on my vintage PCs.
I bought a Kingwin ADP-06 - it has a jumper to allow IDE drives to work on SATA and of course Vice Versa, SATA on IDE.
So tonight I learned a few things on this....
1.) This thing works great, so as long as you use it as a single drive on a single IDE Channel
2.) Yes you can attach a 256GB 6GB/s SSD to a 486 with a VLB IDE Host Controller
3.) The glory of what 24 FAT-16 partitions looks like in Maxblast (the DDO I Used, the drive is a Samsung)
Also, keep in mind, FAT-16, FAT-32, and so on, REALLY waste Partition Space on SSD, my 256GB SSD looks more like a 127GB SSD to the 486. Sheer Lunacy - yes. Fun - yes. Fast....oh heck yes.
Windows 95 OSR 2.5 took me about 20 minutes to install on this setup (my optical drive is a DVD-RW drive) - full featured.....normal time is between 30-45 min.
The real truth will come though when I try some Multitrack recording on this setup :D
I bought a Kingwin ADP-06 - it has a jumper to allow IDE drives to work on SATA and of course Vice Versa, SATA on IDE.
So tonight I learned a few things on this....
1.) This thing works great, so as long as you use it as a single drive on a single IDE Channel
2.) Yes you can attach a 256GB 6GB/s SSD to a 486 with a VLB IDE Host Controller
3.) The glory of what 24 FAT-16 partitions looks like in Maxblast (the DDO I Used, the drive is a Samsung)
Also, keep in mind, FAT-16, FAT-32, and so on, REALLY waste Partition Space on SSD, my 256GB SSD looks more like a 127GB SSD to the 486. Sheer Lunacy - yes. Fun - yes. Fast....oh heck yes.
Windows 95 OSR 2.5 took me about 20 minutes to install on this setup (my optical drive is a DVD-RW drive) - full featured.....normal time is between 30-45 min.
The real truth will come though when I try some Multitrack recording on this setup :D