Re: SCSI Adaptec AIC 7890 on Asus P2B-LS not detecting Fujitsu MO drive

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marvias wrote on Today, 08:50: But system is not detecting the drive. What exactly do you mean with that? Is ist available in the controller's device tools or is it just disabled in BIOS scan?

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Re: Graphics card for Windows 3.11 and Nt3.51 in high resolutions (1600x1200 and higher)

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The TNT drivers for Win311 also work with a TNT2

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Re: DOS/Win3.1/NT/95/98 on single HDD?

Posted on 2021-07-20, 16:46

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No one mentioned if any of these will have an issue of actually seeing the large HDD itself? Don't older OS's have an issue with disk detection and max size limits? That's the clou in my partition scheme. DOS is doing well seeing its partition and the logical drive. It won't care about partitions …

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Re: DOS/Win3.1/NT/95/98 on single HDD?

Posted on 2021-07-20, 12:00

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I usually boot DOS-Win16, Win98SE and Win2K or WinXP from such disks. My partition table is: #1 Win98 FAT32 nonboot starting at cylinder 1022 or 1023 to the rest of the disk. #2 Win2K/XP NTFS boot starting at cylinder 64 containing bootmanager ,size 5507 #3 DOS nonboot FAT16 starting at cylinder 0 …

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Re: Duke Nukem 3D - Which music card is best? (re: Adlib/OPL3, MT-32, or SC-55?)

Posted on 2021-07-19, 18:17

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OPL3? ymmd 😉 What's about the GUS? Let's rock!

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Re: SAS SCSI for retro computing

Posted on 2021-07-11, 16:15

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Probably find it on wikipedia if I was bored😀 Well, I've altered some information on German Wikipedia SCSI page. today i was dumbfounded to see VLB and PCI on the same AT Motherboard I didn't think such creature existed, having built in IDE and floppy, i think i'd ignore the VLB in favor of PCI …

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Re: SAS SCSI for retro computing

Posted on 2021-07-09, 18:40

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I think its because VLB could be called the first 32 bit bus and PCI was the winning design. I'm sorry, I have to contradict you. Well, there were concurring local buses at this time. Opti/Orchid local bus and other proprietary local buses. The VLB thing came from VESA to get a common design. But …

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Re: 386SX/40 build

Posted on 2021-07-05, 14:27

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A 386/40 should have some cache. Regardless whether DX or SX.

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Re: SAS SCSI for retro computing

Posted on 2021-07-01, 17:38

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Do you have it in full size too?

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Re: Need help identifying card

Posted on 2021-07-01, 10:50

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I haven't seen them in 8 bit. Even the cards for the LU005S and FX-001D were 16 bit ISA. But it is an adapter for CDROMs.

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Re: Best Sound Cards each year of the 90's

Posted on 2021-07-01, 02:52

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1991 - Turtle Beach MultiSound classic

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Re: SAS SCSI for retro computing

Posted on 2021-06-30, 18:17

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Can you post a picture of your card please?

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Re: SAS SCSI for retro computing

Posted on 2021-06-30, 06:56

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Well, I had strange problems with my ISA ET4000 W32 too. I had to change a jumper's position to fix the problems with the Windows 3.x and Windows 95 drivers.

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Re: SAS SCSI for retro computing

Posted on 2021-06-29, 19:06

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The key with the busmaster transfers is that the main processor could so something else while data is transferred from disk to memory or vice versa. However, this requires a multitasking operating system. You won't see much improvement on DOS. Yes there are some PCI IDE or even SATA controllers. …

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Re: SAS SCSI for retro computing

Posted on 2021-06-29, 16:54

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Same on my ISA 386sx/20. The ISA Adaptec 1542B outperforms the IDE adapters I've tried on that system. Busmaster is the keyword.

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Re: SAS SCSI for retro computing

Posted on 2021-06-29, 16:08

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An EISA Adaptec 2740W or 2742W easily outperforms any onboard IDE controller of modern 486 boards. 18 MB/s busmaster performance is much better than any PIO you could achieve with IDE interfaces.

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Re: Need Help With Windows 3.11 Networking

Posted on 2021-06-27, 18:17

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Do you have installed IFSHLP.SYS in config.sys and NET START in autoexec.bat?

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Re: SuperDisk (LS-120) parallel-to-USB, Windows 10

Posted on 2021-06-26, 21:46

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You successfully got Windows 10 to recognize and allow the use of an internal LS-120? I have the opportunity to get 3 or 4 more internal SuperDisks along with 20-21" monitors and some Gateway P3 systems, for super cheap. I may go that route to use an internal as an external. I am still hoping for a …

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Re: SuperDisk (LS-120) parallel-to-USB, Windows 10

Posted on 2021-06-26, 20:04

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Since my Windows hang everytime I connected my IDE LS-120 to an PCIe PATA controller or with a converter to a SATA port, I have connected it using an IDE to USB converter. Does anybody know how to get the LS-120 IDE working under Windows 10 using the straight way?

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Re: UMC PCI based Socket 3 board with 1024k cache and PS2 mouse support?

Posted on 2021-06-26, 08:12

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Anonymous Coward wrote on 2021-06-24, 09:35: Hot 433 in theory should, but the ps2 port doesn’t work, right? HOT 433 could be adapted for a working PS/2 port. My 486 UMC8886/8881 Project (Version 2.0) And it could run 256 MB cached RAM as well. However, L2 could not be set to write back.

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