It is also possible to swap the hard drive for compact flash-based storage as it shares the original IDE drive's signaling pinout.

If you buy an IDE drive then you will have to remove the original drive from the computer in order to configure it.

But mine are, like, early first-generation IDE drives.

It emulates an IDE drive.

And they see the IDE drive as being something that they recognize, thanks to the drivers, which are part of the firmware.

A similarly specified Dan ISA machine with a cached IDE drive would go for around half that price.

Because they are easier to configure for newbies, we'll assume that you have IDE drives.

Don't ask why we have 400MB IDE drives laying around.

Before long, other vendors began offering IDE drives.

Version 3 has slightly higher requirements, and requires an IDE drive.