ISA Solid State Drive

[gerrydoire]

Adtron Solid State Drive SSD Dual-Slot Drive and ISA Bus Card

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Adtron-Solid-State-Drive-SSD-Dual-Slot-Drive-and-ISA-Bus-Card-/180776327294?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a171bd87e

Anyone familair with this device?

 

[k2x4b524[]

looks like it uses some kind of pcmcia style memory card for the cards

 

[pearce_jj]

40 pin keyed header on the card looks like it could be an IDE interface.

 

[Chuck(G)]

It took 15 seconds with google to find this--and that Adtron is still very much in business.

 

[dorkbert]

that looks like PCMCIA adapter. personally I would feel very foolish spending 100 bucks on something like that...

 

[gerrydoire]

It took 15 seconds with google to find this--and that Adtron is still very much in business.

I emailed the company asking if this legacy product supports 8088 CPU or
requires a 80286+....

I have another product here that is similar, uses intel flash chips and it's also an
8 bit ISA card, but the firmware requires a 80286 CPU.

 

[Chuck(G)]

I wonder if the firmware is 8088 or 80286... considering it's 8bit ISA..

Not that there's going to be much of anything in the firmware, I suspect that it's largely geared toward the 286+ crowd. Consider--it requires an IDE controller to work. 8-bit IDE controllers weren't that common (I'm not counting XTA-type since those are a completely different animal).

Regardless, this thing is not worth the Benjamin that the seller is asking. Better to get an XTIDE, I think.

 

[gerrydoire]

Not that there's going to be much of anything in the firmware, I suspect that it's largely geared toward the 286+ crowd. Consider--it requires an IDE controller to work. 8-bit IDE controllers weren't that common (I'm not counting XTA-type since those are a completely different animal).

Regardless, this thing is not worth the Benjamin that the seller is asking. Better to get an XTIDE, I think.

Most likely..... O_O

 

[k2x4b524[]

look at the ebay pictures, it's 2 pieces, it IS the controller and the drive is the thing you put in the drive bay. I actually saw one of these but looked over it because i had no clue what it was.

 

[Chuck(G)]

Still not worth $100, IMOHO.