Re: FMA7600 and booting from PCMCIA

Posted on 2023-09-28, 07:46

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by Bondi

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You can add the lines to your config.sys on the diskete manually, and change the path to A:\ (obviously) + add pcmfdisk.exe to the diskette. The only nuance is that pcmss.exe is created upon installation and depends on your controller. DEVICE=C:\PCM3\CNFIGNAM.EXE /DEFAULT DEVICE=C:\PCM3\PCMSS.EXE …

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Re: FMA7600 and booting from PCMCIA

Posted on 2023-09-28, 07:24

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by Bondi

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Found out the diskette died. Made a new one after archiving the contents from that diskette. Hope it works this time. Nope. Still nothing. Even the Phoenix Card Management 3.01 says cannot read PCM.INI or cannot find PCM.INI, even though it's on the diskette. That Phoenix installer doesn't run from …

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Re: FMA7600 and booting from PCMCIA

Posted on 2023-09-28, 06:04

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by Bondi

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It also matters which tool you use to make a partition on the CF card. Note posts 10-13 in that very thread on Thinkpads forum that Thermalwrong posted the link to.

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Re: USB 5 1/2” disk reader

Posted on 2023-09-23, 09:52

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by Bondi

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Have you seen this video?https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjd2jSHBw7E&pp= … DUsMjUgZmxvcHB5 A guy made one working in DOS, but not in Windows.

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Re: PCMCIA CF Cards on an old 486 Laptop

Posted on 2023-09-21, 11:06

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by Bondi

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I have a similar card that works fine on old laptops. However your says SiliconDrive II, maybe that's the reason. Anyways, I'd try to make a partition with pcmfdisk.exe tool that comes with PhoenixCard Manager (note it requires all Phoenix drivers loaded). It's usually my last resort if it comes to …

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Re: PCMCIA CF Cards on an old 486 Laptop

Posted on 2023-09-21, 08:41

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by Bondi

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What brand is the not working CF? I have one Cisco 512Mb card that's not seen in old laptops, but works in Win10.

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Re: Toshiba Libretto floppy drive+pcmcia

Posted on 2023-09-15, 15:21

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by Bondi

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rbarquer@yahoo.com wrote on 2023-09-15, 13:18: Bondi wrote on 2020-08-25, 19:58: And here are Win2k, 98, 95 and DOS drivers for this floppy. Hi, would these drivers you shared work with the Sony FA-P1 floppy drive? Of course! The only thing is that in DOS it doesn't work on all laptops. But it's a …

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Re: Looking for PCMCIA drivers: Vadem VG-468 - FMA7600 laptops

Posted on 2023-09-15, 08:44

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by Bondi

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Phoenix Card Manager 3.01 seems to have support for Vadem-468 chip. See the link in my signature to download it. EDIT: Cardsoft has support for Vadem chip as well. Not sure why the installer doesn't work.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-09-14, 18:17

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Hi all, Returning from my lurking mode. Past months have been good for my retro-obsession, and managed to pick some cool items. Firstly an obscure mini laptop from Soyo. Probably the worst plastic shell ever made, it feels like its going to disintegrate at any moment you touch it. PW9800.jpg PW9800 …

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Re: Some questions about IBM PS/2 Models

Posted on 2023-09-06, 17:08

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by Bondi

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Read all relevant information about your system and parts in the ardent tool. Here is the main page for 55SX and it probably already answers many questions and introduces you to the wonderful and annoying world of IBM PS/2s: https://zzxio.com/product/mcide/ Learn the system, it helps you long way …

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Re: PCMCIA CF Cards on an old 486 Laptop

Posted on 2023-09-05, 10:04

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by Bondi

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Theoretically it's possible to add Card and Socket drivers + PCMCIA ATA driver to the config.sys on a bootable floppy. And it will work. TI came with Phoenix CardManager software as IFAIK. The tricky part is that you will have to add the strings manually as the installer will hardly fit on a …

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2023-09-04, 10:35

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by Bondi

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All in all these newer machines are not really optimal for use with pcmcia sound cards. I'd rather consider using SBEMU emulator which works fine on x60s and is much more compatible with DOS games and supports both digital and FM sound. I second that approach. An added benefit of adding support for …

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Re: Seeking Advice on Toshiba T1910CS: Data Transfer and External Sound Card Options

Posted on 2023-08-28, 08:46

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by Bondi

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As for the external sound devices, your options are as follows: - PCMCIA sound devices. They have very different capabilities, you can check my signature (for the chart and the whole thread is also worth reading) for more details. Yet they are hard to find and expensive. - Covox - it's a parallel …

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Re: PCMCIA ZV 3DFX in FPGA, could it be possible?

Posted on 2023-08-07, 09:21

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by Bondi

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I was able to use one of those magma cardbus adapters and use a voodoo 2 on a laptop. No ZV port though. Somthing like youre discribing could not exist for a lot of reasons. Why not? In my understanding ZV allows for direct transfer of video data to the video card. And if a PCMCIA card can decode …

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Re: vogons search engine bug

Posted on 2023-07-26, 10:54

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by Bondi

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There is another bug, wonder if anyone else faced it. If I do two or more words search I get some search results, but if I then change display option to "post time" search finds nothing. With one word search it works as expected. never experienced that. anyway vogons does not offer an option to …

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Re: vogons search engine bug

Posted on 2023-07-26, 08:52

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by Bondi

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There is another bug, wonder if anyone else faced it. If I do two or more words search I get some search results, but if I then change display option to "post time" search finds nothing. With one word search it works as expected.

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2023-07-12, 17:25

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Thank you! My bad as i didn’t check the entire thread, only checked using the search engine and couldn’t find it. By the way still not able to find the DOS drivers you asked me, i will try to ask the japanese guy on youtube who has several sample videos of super rare sound cards/modules. Maybe he …

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2023-07-12, 17:18

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I tried with card and socket services and also without loading emm386.exe and all does not work with No SoundCard message. As for controller, it is Ricoh RL5C476 and it seems it is compatibile with i82365SL (Compliant with i82365SL compatibile register set / ExCA TM in PC Card-16 Bridge section of …

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2023-07-10, 07:12

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I won an auction today of a device that I'm not sure if it could be considered a PCMCIA sound card itself. It is called "IBM External 4X PCMCIA Stereo CDROM Drive with sound box". It is a complete one in box and luckily it has all the parts as almost always is missing the pcmcia card. It is a …

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2023-07-10, 07:02

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I’m travelling now, and will be able to upload vew211 data on monday. Unless someone does it before that. Also looking at Fujitsu card data, it seems to have unmodified card name. I’m not sure why it doesn’t work. Did you try loading card and socket services? Also it can be the controller problem. …

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