Re: Old scsi peripherals on modern PC?

Posted on Yesterday, 19:28

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If you have a PCI card like Adaptec 19160 or Symbios/LSI 875 there should not be too many obstacles to run them in Windows 10 x64. HDDs and ODDs (optical disk drives) will use built-in drivers of Windows.

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Re: I'm asking about INT13h again.

Posted on 2023-06-01, 18:46

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Hello. I found out just now that the programming for accessing the disk using INT13h looks like assembly code. I don't understand the topic and I wonder if anyone knows of a way to help me understand something about addressing. Given a VM with MSDOS 6 instantiated; Does the virtual BIOS & PATA …

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Re: FAT16 to FAT32 conversion: Is it possible?

Posted on 2023-05-29, 23:08

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Yes, it is. But you need Windows 95 B or C. When you open a command prompt (command.com) and you type "ver", what do you get?

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Re: TNT2 Ultra faster than Geforce 2MX on Slot A?

Posted on 2023-05-29, 09:26

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No wonder. As far as no T&L is used, the TNT2 Ultra clearly should beat the GeForce 2 MX. I mean, you compare a king of the hill from a not so far former generation with a low end graphics card!

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Re: 486 check

Posted on 2023-05-23, 06:51

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Oh! Since an Am486 DX4 (N)V8T behaves like a 3,45 Volt DX2 with L1 cache in write through mode, you need a different jumper setting for a write back enabled DX4 like the Intel &EW.

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Re: [Advice needed] Two EISA VGA cards : build a system or sell the cards

Posted on 2023-05-16, 22:08

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I disagree. So I agree with maxtherabbit (last post at the moment): Especially the Compaq QVision 1024/E is good in DOS. I made some benchmarks https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=838387#p838387 I don't think this throughput is possible with an ISA card. Thanks for the benchmarks. I'm impressed …

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Re: Cheap Sound Card for DOS --- ALS4000 PCI

Posted on 2023-05-09, 13:55

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What mainboard do you use? Can you post a picture of your mainboard too?

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Re: Memtest86 needed for 286 1MB RAM

Posted on 2023-05-08, 10:56

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I've been testing all sorts of different RAM in this motherboard and they all come up pretty much the same with errors but then out of dumb luck I didn't install any ram and powered it on and guess what there is 1MB of system RAM on the motherboard, If I put half of the 4 populated slots in i.e. …

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Re: 486 missing 16kBx4 tag cache?

Posted on 2023-05-07, 15:29

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With your 64 kB of L2 cache, obviousely operating in write through mode, please do not install more than 16 MB of RAM. Otherwise there will be an uncached area in your RAM with that small amount of cache. Note that that dirty tag ram will be quite different from your other SRAM chips.

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Re: ISA DMA issues in DOS with SiS 496/497 based motherboards

Posted on 2023-05-07, 08:02

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Do you also have problems accessing floppy disks?

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Re: "Less taller than normal" IDE drives only detecting 8GB in BIOS

Posted on 2023-05-06, 18:37

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There are several things that can happen on old computers when touching a technical border of such a system. From 120 GB to 160 GB there is a border at 137 GB (128 GiB). It's the so called 48-Bit-LBA border. Earlier systems had borders at 32 GB, 8 GB, 2 GB and 504 MB. You may feel strange behaviour, …

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Re: w i n d o w s

Posted on 2023-05-05, 15:32

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You can add another primary partition and install another operating system there. However, you have to extract it's boot sector then, save as file on the windows 2000 boot partition, and to include it in boot.ini - you have a boot menu then. For operating systems like DOS the new partition has to be …

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Re: ITX-Llama

Posted on 2023-05-03, 21:44

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Yes that's not much. Is the mini SD card recognized as fixed or as changeable disk?

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Re: ITX-Llama

Posted on 2023-05-03, 20:07

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Swap PS/2 connector with sound connector. Then swap network connector with sound connector. https://www.google.com/search?q=old+atx+backplate&tbm=isch Note that you also can use just one PS/2 connector. It then is combined for mouse and keyboard by using all 6 wires. There also exist passive cable …

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Re: ITX-Llama

Posted on 2023-05-03, 19:49

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Eivind wrote on 2023-03-31, 14:01: I'm open to everyone's feedback and suggestions while finalizing the design for this board! Too bad you cannot layout the connectors on the back of the mainboard to fit to the contemporary backplates... But, however you will include a backplate for sure.

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Re: ITX-Llama

Posted on 2023-05-03, 19:29

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Ah, that's easy. Some newer supplys have 24 pin connectors that can't be split to 20+4 pin connectors. So if you use a 20 pin connector on the motherboard, a 24 pin supply connector won't be blocked by capacitors. You need a 24 pin connection when that one +12V wire from the supply does not have …

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Re: ITX-Llama

Posted on 2023-05-03, 19:20

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You can use a 20 pin connector. But I recommend to leave the space next to it free, at least from big capacitors like in your pictures. But a 20 pin cable will also fit into a 24 pin connector on the board. It won't make any problem as long as you have same power connections shorted. 24 pin became …

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Re: Retro OSes for retro computers

Posted on 2023-05-03, 15:16

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Today, we will reach the sky with SkyOS, a one man project from Australia started in the late 90s as free, the system became commercial after a point, but the author decided to release the latest beta version publicly after stopping its development. Austria, not Australia. It basically was a one …

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Re: Datacare DI610, Tekram DC-680T Cached VLB IDE controller

Posted on 2023-05-03, 09:08

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Question about the cache. Did someone here test how the speed scale with different cache setups? more cache - faster transfers? Since you can upgrade up to 16MB i wonder if its worth You won't be able to increase the transfer speed to the disk by adding more cache memory. As far as I know, mkarcher …

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Re: Datacare DI610, Tekram DC-680T Cached VLB IDE controller

Posted on 2023-05-02, 19:08

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Please post all 3 ROMs, as we do not have the 1.40 firmware yet.

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