Just a couple years earlier and it was more fraught, for sure. UMDA/33 was probably late '97 or early '98. I got a couple of oddball IDE drives from a friend ba

Just a couple years earlier and it was more fraught, for sure. UMDA/33 was probably late '97 or early '98. I got a couple of oddball IDE drives from a friend back in about '94-- a 100MB-ish Xebec and a similarly-sized KALOK drive. I recall having difficult getting them working along side my Western Digital 250MB. I had a SCSI CD-ROM so I didn't have that mess to deal with and ended up running one of the oddball drives at a time on my secondary IDE channel. The fun I don't miss was "disk overlays" and finally adding a Promise-branded ISA card with an option ROM to exceed the >1,024 cylinder (504MiB) "barrier". I still have that card knocking around somewhere, I think. It'd be fun to dump that ROM and see what it looked like.