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NVMe driver for Windows 2000, targeting both x86 and Alpha AXP platforms(github.com)
71 points by zdw 6 days ago | 6 comments
irusensei 22 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Looking at that person's repo you'll also find NVME drivers for SGI Irix.

https://github.com/techomancer/irixnvme

Nexxxeh 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

For those of us who like seeing old OSs running on old bare metal to a daft extent, a YouTuber "Omores" is worth a look:

https://www.youtube.com/@O_mores

He has videos on this driver running on NT and 2000.

jdboyd 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I wonder how much further back he can take it. NT4 and NT3.51 would be really cool to see supported.

Nexxxeh 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Omores did a video on it with NT 4.0, and the description says it does also work with NT 3.5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvT9-ZfW1Iw

spijdar 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Wow, imagine seeing this just after booting up my PWS running NT (and RH Linux...). NT 4, but one day I do want to try 2k.

My immediate question which isn't (I think) answered in the repo is how do you interface the NVMe? Can you put NVMe on PCI as opposed to PCIe? How?

In the meantime, I'll just add the desire to do this to the other Alpha-related intrusive thoughts I have, like getting that port of OpenSolaris/Illumos to Alpha to run...

dgl 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> My immediate question which isn't (I think) answered in the repo is how do you interface the NVMe? Can you put NVMe on PCI as opposed to PCIe? How?

PCI to PCIe adapter and then PCIe to M.2: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=78987 (PCIe has some level of backwards compatibility, although like that thread shows there are some limits as to what will work).