--- In [email protected], "jr_dakota" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One thing I noticed that's kind of odd ... all my serial and > parallel port programmers and apps work in Vista without an extra > driver, cripes I remember what a fight is was to get XP to work with > my programmers, everyone had a different hack for the ports and they > didn't play very well together, to get my parallel port PIC > programmer to work I'd have to remove my parallel port > O-scope/spectrum analyzer > ... finally I ended up using my laptop for the O-scope and used my > main box for programming PICs > ---- snip -----
JR, many thanks for your impressions about the use of Vista. The viewpoint of a technically skilled person is always more valuable than that of a journalist, who, to be inline with his profession, *must* (and actually does) know nothing...:-) About the SATA drives, modern BIOS handle the issue themselves, in the sense that the SATA drive is mapped as if it were an EIDE drive. With my Gigabyte motherboard I am even able to boot to DOS and the two SATA drives are perfectly accessible even under DOS. 73 Alberto I2PHD
