Re: "FastTrak S150 SX4 Lite" PCI SATA control cards?!

Posted on 2020-08-05, 13:48

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by Xeen

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So it actually sees the controller properly.. no error in device manager? That is good at least. Are there any options in the driver settings? My guess is that write and read caching may be disabled by default with the Promise driver. Yes, it sees the controller card, but the strange thing is in …

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Re: "FastTrak S150 SX4 Lite" PCI SATA control cards?!

Posted on 2020-08-05, 12:56

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by Xeen

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I've already edited the .INF file for the Win98-ME drivers to add the SX4 Lite to it.. based on the HP 2k/XP driver pack for the SX4 Lite and a few other cards including some TX cards. Just waiting to hear back to see if it works or not. The SX4-M and SX4000 cards use a completely different chip …

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"FastTrak S150 SX4 Lite" PCI SATA control cards?!

Posted on 2020-08-05, 01:44

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by Xeen

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Hello, I'm planning for a Win98SE system and want to use SATA hdd because they are easy to find for reasonable price. After research I bought this Promise "FastTrak S150TX4" card. It looks the same as "FastTrak S150 TX4", but there is a label says "FastTrak S150 SX4 Lite" and I can't find any …

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Re: PC/PCI or SB-LINK cable. How to make?

Posted on 2020-07-24, 03:45

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by Xeen

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No you just need a 3x2 straight through ribbon cable. They will most certainly not be called SBLINK or PC/PCI cables...that is long, long dead technology those only weirdos like us know about. Sure, which is why I looked for "Flachbandkabel 2x3" on Reichelt. Granted, those on Ebay even ship for …

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Re: Need help to configuer the HDD for CMD technology Inc VLB control card (CSA-6210/KX)

Posted on 2020-07-24, 00:54

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Here is the picture of HDD. It took a bit long as I don't have the system with me currently. Filename IMG_8424 2020-07-24 00_43_34.JPG File size 116.29 KiB Views 299 views Filename IMG_8425 2020-07-27 01_58_19.JPG File size 104.77 KiB Views 276 views

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Re: Need help to configuer the HDD for CMD technology Inc VLB control card (CSA-6210/KX)

Posted on 2020-07-21, 01:27

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by Xeen

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Hi all, BIOS can't auto-detect the HDD so I go for manual configuration, but system can't find booting devices. The strange thing is HDD LED won't go off when connecting to primary IDE header and it lit up few seconds when connecting to secondary IDE header which looks normal behavior. Found the …

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Need help to configuer the HDD for CMD technology Inc VLB control card (CSA-6210/KX)

Posted on 2020-07-20, 06:10

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by Xeen

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Hi all, BIOS can't auto-detect the HDD so I go for manual configuration, but system can't find booting devices. The strange thing is HDD LED won't go off when connecting to primary IDE header and it lit up few seconds when connecting to secondary IDE header which looks normal behavior. Found the …

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Re: Xeen and Roland synths

Posted on 2020-05-24, 04:19

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In my experience playing these games many times since the 90s, CM-32L is great for MM3 and GM/GS for MM4/5. There is a capital tone fallback bug that affects the bow sound, but that can be fixed using FalcoSoft Midi player. Thanks for sharing, if GS is for MM4/5 then CM-32L is not the good (right) …

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Re: Xeen and Roland synths

Posted on 2020-05-23, 02:19

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Hello, Recently I decided to revisit Might & Magic 4,5 and found this thread, according to the discussion CM-32L is the right device for them. However, when I try it I found CM-32L sounds strange. For example, I need to turn off the music in game in order to hear the door and footstep sound, and the …

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Re: Adaptec 1542B not working with ASPI4DOS

Posted on 2020-03-16, 14:16

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by Xeen

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Hello! I'm a still confused, can anyone help with the case if I want to hook a hard drive and a cd-rom with one cable, should I load ASPIDISK or ASPICD? if you have the SCSI BIOS enabled (i.e. you're booting off the SCSI HDD) then you only need to load ASPICD, not ASPIDISK Thanks for the answer, in …

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Re: Iomega ZIP drive drivers?

Posted on 2020-03-11, 09:57

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by Xeen

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Unfortunately, it seems Win10 has issues to support Zip drive "natively" , see Iomega Zip Drive not working with Windows 10 - a possible solution Quote from the webpage. This is what worked for me:- Open 'Device Manager' (Cortana search). Expand 'Disk drives' (click the > symbol). Open properties …

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Re: Need help with the performance of Adaptec 1540CF

Posted on 2020-03-02, 02:59

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by Xeen

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Booting issue resolved, "FDISK /mbr" did the job and thanks for all the feedback, apparently I need a 6.0 and VLB controller card.

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Re: Need help with the performance of Adaptec 1540CF

Posted on 2020-02-28, 11:21

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Now I have trouble to boot from SCSI2SD, controller can see SCSI drive but system freezes right after beep. SCSI drive is working when I boot from IDE or floppy. FDISK and format works without problem, BIOS shadowing and CPU writ through cache are also enabled. What do I miss? ((+_+))

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Re: Need help with the performance of Adaptec 1540CF

Posted on 2020-02-28, 03:21

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I use SCSI2SD v5, pretty old version. For data backup and transfer purpose, it's doing a good job. I backup DOM to SCSI2SD (4 x 2GB drive or 8GB drive contents 4 partitions) then restore everything back on CF card, although speed is not good it's quite convenient. Btw, is v5 SD card compatible with …

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Re: Need help with the performance of Adaptec 1540CF

Posted on 2020-02-28, 03:00

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by Xeen

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I suspect that ISA SCSI hosts belong in the "older SCSI hosts" category here, so yes, that's exactly your case, everything is normal. Replacing that Adaptec 1540CF with a VLB counterpart would surely help, but - as already mentioned by Doornkaat - it would still be slower than IDE. I believe it is …

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Re: Need help with the performance of Adaptec 1540CF

Posted on 2020-02-27, 10:16

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by Xeen

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It's a Gateway2000 486DX2-66v which DOM is directly connect to onboard IDE port. So... local bus IDE vs. ISA SCSI Sorry, there's no way for SCSI to be the winner here. 1 MB/s indeed seems somewhat slow, but can't expect it to be faster than about 3 MB/s - https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p= …

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Re: Need help with the performance of Adaptec 1540CF

Posted on 2020-02-27, 09:42

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by Xeen

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Have you checked the SCSI2SD Wiki? http://www.codesrc.com/mediawiki/index.php/SCSI2SD It seems that 1-2 MiB/s is about to be expected. You need the v6 hardware for better performance. I use SCSI2SD V5 and hopefully "1.1MB/s on most older SCSI hosts" is not my case. :( Again, I'm sorry I can't help …

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Re: Need help with the performance of Adaptec 1540CF

Posted on 2020-02-27, 07:53

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by Xeen

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Yeah, I agree it's "inappropriate" to expect performance boost from SCSI... 🤣 But the disk performance I have seems "abnormal" and it is a way to maximaze disk capacity under DOS 6.22.

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Need help with the performance of Adaptec 1540CF

Posted on 2020-02-27, 04:48

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by Xeen

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Hello everyone, For better performance I bought a 1540CF card (without floppy connector) and SCSI2SD v5 for my 486DX2-66. I use a 32G SD card which contains 4 SCSI drives (2GB each) and they just work. However, when I check disk performance from Norton Sysinfo 8, they only produce around 996 …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2020-02-20, 13:17

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by Xeen

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They look like IKEA to me.

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