Gammitin (Ben) ๐พTonight's random retro experiment:
Trying to install MS-DOS to a SCSI Magneto Optical (MO) drive and then booting from it on a 386! ๐
Trying to install MS-DOS to a SCSI Magneto Optical (MO) drive and then booting from it on a 386! ๐
The SCSI card is a 16-bit ISA Adaptec AHA-1540B from 1990, powered by an Intel 8085!
Winning so far, the MO drive is recognised as soon as I stick a disc in, installed as Drive C:
Fdisk recognises it as a fixed disk and it's now formatting!
MS-DOS installed and it boots, surprisingly fast tbh, really cool!
รscar Toledo G.@Gammitin it is amazing SCSI drives are very solid and still working. I've a 60MB SCSI hard-drive running even if it makes the sounds of a bus running at max speed ๐
Jernej Simoncฬiฤ ๏ฟฝ@Gammitin That's a lot of RAM for a 386 :)
@jernej__s it sure is!
John fRUMOHIO@Gammitin I was so impressed by that thing back in the day (receiving artwork at a printing plant)