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Re: Vampire v4
« on: August 03, 2017, 04:36:16 PM »
Okay, I GREATLY appreciate the work going into the Vampires.  I have a 500+v2 or v2+ of my own and it's been pretty damn awesome.  HOWEVER, why are we still sticking with IDE and not going SATA?  Or both?  Am I in the minority for my desire to use SSDs instead of CFs or even IDE DoM?

In any case, a Vampire for the 1200 will be sweet!
 

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Re: Vampire v4
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2017, 05:21:37 PM »
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Possibly because of operating system limitations, unless you use a SATA to PATA chip in which case the end user may as well buy a third party converter interface.

Right, they exist and I've been successful in using them, but at least integrating such a chip into the board would take up less space than a converter.

Meh, I've been kvetching about SATA for a number of years and I don't think I'll see it any time soon in "classic" hardware.
 

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Re: Vampire v4
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2017, 08:26:45 PM »
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IDE to SATA adapters exist.


Right, and like I said they're bulk and a PITA but I also acquiesced over the issue.
 

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Re: Vampire v4
« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2017, 02:30:12 AM »
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It's 2017, people need to let the floppy go.  :laughing:

Pry it from my cold dead hands, Muchacho.
 

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Re: Vampire v4
« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2017, 03:20:24 PM »
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my experience with them is that when they fail, they do so with zero warning signs (making routine backups  essential).


My experience with regular hard drives is the same.  One day everything is going swimmingly and the next day it fails to start.
 

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Re: Apollo Team announces the Vampire V4
« Reply #5 on: August 11, 2017, 04:27:32 AM »
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And of course it doesnt help that the project leader has a lot of communication issues, despite the good will of its team and its community.


A lot of really good engineers suffer this, and this community lacks the luxury of a go-between for the community and the engineers.
 

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Re: Apollo Team announces the Vampire V4
« Reply #6 on: August 12, 2017, 01:41:42 AM »
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But who would buy a Vampire if it came with a core that is slower, but fully replicates existing 040 or 060?


But what if it had SATA ports? ;)
 

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Re: Apollo Team announces the Vampire V4
« Reply #7 on: August 25, 2017, 09:05:55 PM »
@mikej

You looked familiar...

I only just put two and two together.