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From: matt_sykes on 30 Sep 2010 09:38
On 21 Sep, 09:56, "Maxim S. Shatskih" <ma...(a)storagecraft.com.no.spam>
wrote:
> >Hmm.  So you are saying an NT 4 driver for an ISA card wouldnt work on
> >XP?
>
> Non-PnP NT4 hardware drivers were obsoleted in w2k, but were working on w2k, though immediately disabling all power management features on the machine.
>
> I don't know if they were completely dropped in XP, probably so. Even if not - the power management will be disabled.
>
> The thing is that NT4 was not a widespread consumer OS, so the demand for drivers for it was low (mainly Ethernet and storage), with this small amount of drivers partly being miniports which are ported from Nt4 to w2k+ trivially. So, MS was not good at maintaining compat with NT4 hardware drivers.
>
> --
> Maxim S. Shatskih
> Windows DDK MVP
> ma...(a)storagecraft.comhttp://www.storagecraft.com

Hmm, I didnt know that. Shows how long ago I worked with ISA!
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