Re: help identifying an "Super I/O" VESA Bus Card?
Posted on Yesterday, 22:14
Is the IDE controller chip on the far left a PiC 12885A-125 or VIDE-1 ? Maybe the markings will show up if lit at an angle.
Re: XT-IDE: WDC turns 3x times on/off
Posted on Yesterday, 22:09
I have not seen that. Perhaps the landing zone detected incorrectly?
Re: Bad caps
Posted on Yesterday, 20:16
Replace it. It's good soldering practice.
Re: How to tell if a CF card supports TRIM? Which TRIM program for DOS?
Posted on Yesterday, 20:11
Install the Intel SSD Toolbox. Under View Drive Information look for Word 169, Bit 0 - Data Set Management Supported. If that bit is 1, Trim is supported. CrystalDiskInfo might also be able to tell you. I don't have any experience with DOS trim programs, so I can't help you out there.
Re: Windows 95 breaking after enabling DMA. Using SD to IDE adapter.
Posted on 2024-04-25, 02:15
Sorry about that. I shouldnt try to post and work at the same time.
Re: UDMA 5 with DOM's & CF's
Posted on 2024-04-25, 02:10
Question guys, what happens when you connect pin 34 to a ground pin and then attempt to use the CF adapter/DOM on an older controller? Let's say one that maxes out at UDMA2/ATA-33 or is even PIO-only, will it still be functional like before or is it affected in any way? (other than not being able …
Re: CF-Card DMA issue with my AMD K6-2 500 MHz SS7 Setup
Posted on 2024-04-25, 02:08
Nicely done!
Re: PCI IDE Controller Card Question
Posted on 2024-04-25, 00:00
https://www.cablesonline.com/duulatidepci.html The pitcure suggests that yhe card has an ITE IT8212 controller chip on it. Not familiar with that chip but it looks like there are win98 drivers out in the wild on some of the older driver disks. https://archive.org/details/sata-IDE-controller-driver- …
Re: Benchmark SCSI vs IDE @ 386SX
Posted on 2024-04-24, 14:16
Not trying to nitpick, just pointing out that this "tiny processor" is quite possibly the fastest core on the mobo. And another obvious statement: Solid storage devices have very low access latency and that alone will make them faster than mechanical drives, however well optimized. For example back …
Re: Windows 95 breaking after enabling DMA. Using SD to IDE adapter.
Posted on 2024-04-24, 13:25
Hi, I purchased this sd card to IDE adapter: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006307922050.html In the description it says this: " This card supports PIO, Multi-word DMA and Ultra DMA Host data transfer modes " Is this motherboard: DFI CA64-TC. I have DMA mode on AUTO in bios (only options are …
Re: CF-Card DMA issue with my AMD K6-2 500 MHz SS7 Setup
Posted on 2024-04-24, 02:14
That’s great. That means Windows would be happy to store the page file on the CF Card. I wonder how long the CF Card would last with having Windows run on it with all the write to disk operations. Depends on the CF, the version of windows, amount of ram, your usage pattern, etc. If you were using …
Re: CF-Card DMA issue with my AMD K6-2 500 MHz SS7 Setup
Posted on 2024-04-22, 13:24
Getting UDMA working is pretty important for a pleasant computing experience for hardware from that period. Enabling UDMA requires cooperation between the IDE controller, the IDE Driver, and the IDE storage device. I'll assume you want to stick with your current onboard IDE controller. Which driver …
Re: Which is the best and cheaper way to use a SSD or a SDCard as a hard disk on a pentium 3 motherboard?
Posted on 2024-04-21, 20:50
That actually looks pretty decent, like they actually took some care in fabbing it, Ive had some horror parts come out of China buying only based on the picture and price. How much did this little part cost ? I have a few and they've been pretty foolproof. I use one in my Socket 7 mITX system. It …
Re: Fastest SD card converter for IDE interface?
Posted on 2024-04-21, 01:21
Pretty much the only SD to IDE (or CF) option is the FC1307 chip. It won't even saturate ATA-33 (33MB/second). Adapters using it are ubiquitous. There was at least one other option, the INIC-2051 chip. Good look finding an adapter that uses it. It is faster than the FC1307, but is less compatible …
Re: Pentium PRO?
Posted on 2024-04-19, 19:18
Short-lived? PPro was introduced in 1995 and superseded by P2 in 1997. That is as long as Intel's flagship as the P2 managed and longer than the P3. The reason PPros are so rare isn't that they were on the market for a short time, it's that they served a specific very expensive niche, and did not …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-04-18, 02:13
Tiido wrote on 2024-04-18, 01:23: I also need to actually catalog all this stuff and then see about downsizing... The retroweb is doing add-in boards now, so you are in luck.
Re: Arn’s FPS benchmark pack for DOS
Posted on 2024-04-17, 17:27
Nice work! How long did it take you to collect all that kit?
Re: Another "cannot get CF2IDE to work in DOS" topic
Posted on 2024-04-17, 15:42
My thanks to everyone who tried to help me! It finally works now, turned out the problem was the cheap chinese CF card (or/and its huge size). Today I got a 128MB iPQ (or something like that) and a 256MB Sandisk and they were both instantly recognized correctly by the BIOS and the PC booted without …
Re: Another "cannot get CF2IDE to work in DOS" topic
Posted on 2024-04-17, 12:46
I see, what baffles me is that as master and only drive it worked fine. Today I got a 128MB one and will be picking another 512MB one so hope you are right and the size may be the problem. So is it better to keep LBA disabled in BIOS as it was before? Could I use FreeDOS FDISK just to partition it …
Re: Another "cannot get CF2IDE to work in DOS" topic
Posted on 2024-04-16, 18:58
Unless you are using DOS 7.1 (aka Win95b or newer) you will likely have a hard time using drives larger than 8.4 GB. Did you try removing the master/slave jumper on your CF adapter? Did you try using a blue 80 conductor IDE cable that supports cable select, putting the blue block on the mobo, the …
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