Re: TrackStar 128E

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

David Chiu replied:

>"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
>20040327180347.01536.00000217@mb-m15.aol.com">news:20040327180347.01536.00000217@mb-m15.aol.com...
>: Ed Eastman wrote:
>
>: >Most any of the ISA cards work in a PC with ISA card slot.  I've heard
>: >people tell me that the Copy II PC Option board willnot work in a faster
>: >machine, but I've run it inmy fastest CPU machine, a PII 400 without any
>: >wierd things happening.  It does process the disk a bunch faster though.
>:)
>
>: Does anything unusual need to be done to make the TrakStar 128e
>: work in a modern (Pentium) machine?  Cache disabled?
>
>: I was afraid that I'd need to resurrect a 386 machine to make it work.  ;-)
>
>: I have a similar question about the PC Localtalk card--it claims to
>: work on "up to 25MHz" 386-based systems.  Will it work properly
>: on more modern, faster systems?
>
>My guess is that much of the problems are coming from bad programming
>practice
>(hard coded timing loops) and ISA bus clock dependencies ("won't work on
>anything faster than 8MHz.) For the most part I am not sure if any
>motherboards out there still have ISA slots...

WRT "why" problems arise, that isn't really the point.  The question
is, what is the fastest, most modern PC (with ISA slot(s)) that the
TrakStar 128e will run in?

There are lots of Pentium systems with ISA slots, and all of them
are a lot faster than 25MHz (!), and they all have advanced caching,
so the question still stands...

-michael

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