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More info?)
Hi Rick and Oscar,
I agree with you Oscar, NT4 should run fine on most modern hardware.
Things i have noted being mentioned in these newsgroups worth repeating:
There are cases reported of problems using Intel chipsets later than the i845
family. Symptoms include inability to install, or missing support (I know
Intel's UDMA HDD drivers for NT4 don't work on chipsets later than i845 :-( -
have a look at the 'Intel Application Accelerator' page on their site for details.)
There is known issue with the DOS VM behaving strangely on machines with a clock
speed over 2.0GHz - there is a hotfix available from Microsoft to address this
problem. See Microsoft Knowledgebase article 320694 - "16-Bit Programs May Not
Update the Screen on Processors Faster Than 2.0GHz"
Elsewise, you will have the standard items to deal with like installing on a
large HDD - see
http://nt4ref.zcm.com.au/bigdisk.htm for a rundown of how this
is dealt with. HDDs of up to 137GB in IDE and unlimited size in SCSI can be
accomodated without recourse to third party drivers. IDE above 137GB (the 48 bit
LBA address limit) has been addressed using some third party controller hardware
and specifically written NT4 drivers.
USB is a hastle, but often solvable - see
http://nt4ref.zcm.com.au/usb.htm for
detail on this.
Firewire is basically unsupported. i have actually seen a NT4 machine running an
external SCSI RAID array with a firewire connect - but recent research fails to
turn up any references to IEEE1394 on NT4, so presumably whoever was doing this
don't do it anymore :-( I would love to be proven wrong here - if anyone knows
anything about this - PLEASE tell us !!
Hope the info helps.
Calvin.