Dear all
First things first, wish you all a happy New Years eve. Hope you had a Merry Christmas, or at least a nice vacation.
Then I like to emphasis the following shall not be taken as an offense to Jean-Francoise PIL-BOX (as I wrote to him already, I am looking forward to having one my self almost regardless the costs) but as an other solution to a long known connectivity problem with non-ISA mainboards. After all, I can imagine, this could be of interest to all of us.
After some research on the web I came across the following site:
http://www.arstech.com/item--usb2isa.html
ARS-Technologies claims to have a solution to connect the "old" ISA card to a more modern computer via USB 2.0. Being a bit of a "non-IT guy" I like to ask the more skilled ones among us, please have a look through the site and let me/us know if this is a real solution? Furthermore, I am not sure if I would need the power supply mentioned under the first subject.
For a quick overview allow me to post a text fragment out of the site concerning "pre-order considerations":
Subject 2 could be of interest to all the developers, couldn't it?
Anyhow, I'd like to thank all of you in advance for your constant support to all of us who are not so familiar with IT issues.
Quote:I've tried already to get in touch with Christoph Klug - a warm hello to him via this channel ;-) - but he seams to be either on vacation, or (this is more possible) I got an old/invalid e-mail address of him.
Pre-order Considerations
1. Powering needs. Our power supply module provides -5V, +12V, and -12V for using the usb2isa family of products. To find whether you need a Power Supply Module, please read DO I NEED A POWER SUPPLY MODULE
2. Software. The UNIVERSAL SOFTWARE LAYER should provide all the software you would need to get our usbisa card to work with your isa card(s). We offer an sdkbus for developers. If you have access to the source code, you may be interested in our SDKBUS. Otherwise, our hardware comes with all the software and drivers you will need.
For more software details, please see SDKBUS OR WILL THE USL DO?
3. Enclosures. ARS Technologies provides plastic enclosures/boxes for mounting a usb2isa and an ISA card. Please check the dimensions on the enclosures before ordering to ensure that the boxes will fit your ISA card using the ISA-B1 or ISA-B2.
However, best regards from Switzerland
Stephan