Reading about people tinkering with old equipment has driven me to dig out an old 386 from the garage and set it up as linux computer. Three hours later, after scavenging for parts and finally settiing up the OS, I get a "DISK IS LIKELY TO FAIL SOON" message. Why does a 30 minute job takes 3 hours? And why does Murphy has to shove his law in my face when I spent all the free time I had before work?
9 months ago
Thank you yamato, and thank you drh3xx and ruby_witch. I will try it with some sort of solid state drive or compact flash card in the future, but for now it will have to wait. I've already spent more than enough, this month, on "entertainment." The drive died on a second bootup, but I didn't lose anything important as it was a fresh install.I just thought it was worth a try, since the computer and peripherals were just collecting dust in the garage -- and it wouldn't have cost me anything. · 9 months ago
You'll be better off getting a compact flash drive and an ide/ata to cf atapter. That's what most of the DOS/Win95 crowd do for PCs of that era. Just chance giving you more tinkering to enjoy :) · 9 months ago
Trust me, every hard drive that was originally attached to a 386 machine is likely to fail soon. :) It's a good idea to get some sort of solid state solution for retro hardware. · 9 months ago