Chiveicrook, Falcosoft, Jmarch, Konc, Riikcakirds, Stanwebber, thank you very much for your responses.

Thank you for your response. Assuming FAT16 cluster size is 32k, the content of the file system (each file and directory) will be sector-aligned? Or will it not? Please clarify your response, I don't fully get your point.

Hi everyone. So I watched this video from Phil about sector-aligned partitioning of a SATA SSD: How to avoid short lifespan when using SSD in Retro PC , and decided whether the above was possible when using DOS (or Windows 9x) -- let's say, for the first FAT16 partition. Normally, when you are …

sdz, thank you for the links!

Hi. It's only today that I learned that Voodoo6 6000 was not the fastest VSA-100 based piece of hardware. Apparently, Quantum TX 8464 was, featuring 16 VSA-100 chips, but the information is really scarce: 975072082.jpg https://tweakers.net/nieuws/14633/nieuwe-quantum3d-aalchemy-producten.html …

With schizo controller BIOSes like this one, your best bet (if you will not do any RAID or strange stuff) is just zero fill the mbr and the first megabyte on your storage with some tool, and then repartition the disk on a board with SATA support. Be careful to choose the geometry you need for your …

Hi everyone. Over the years, I've been able to successfully triple-boot MS-DOS 6.22, Windows 98, and Windows 2000 from the same IDE hard drive, having the following disk geometry: a primary 2047.3 MB FAT16B ( 0x6 ) partition for MS-DOS, defined in CHS, cylinder-aligned, and spanning no more than …

You may try Yamaha 7x4 series PCI cards ( Labway or Xwave made). I have good experience using both Yamaha 724 and Yamaha 754. There're three preconditions to be met, though: You should be running Windows 9.x ( Thief series runs well on Windows 2000 and XP, but there's no Sensaura support in the …

When I got the board it had 3 bloated - no - exploded capacitors (they looked kind of like half-popped popcorn) and would post but would lock up in bios or after booting (if I pressed F1 at the CMOS error message) just like you're describing. I replaced the four caps next to the CPU socket with …

You could also try to run the cpu/ram at fsb 100 right now. On page 1o in the manual you can find the setting for fsb 66 and 100 via jumper JP9 & JP10, and on page 11 you can find jumper JP15 settings for automatic or manual selection. Thank you. I've actually tried a bunch of other pre-Coppermine …

Thank you for your response, Roman. After some consideration, I can't but come to a conclusion there's indeed something wrong with the 133 MHz FSB and PC-133 memory modules which are marked as such but are not PC-133 capable. So now I'm ordering a 100 MHz FSB CPU and some extra PC-133 DIMM modules ( …

Apparently, the memory modules were to be blamed (they're PC-100, not PC-133). Once I've set DRAM clock to 100 MHz, everything seems back to normal: IMG_20210524_013724.jpg IMG_20210524_013707.jpg Or so I thought... The next day, setting DRAM clock to 100 MHz has no effect, the system freezing even …

Hi everyone. So I decided to upgrade my ultimate Solaris 8 build , pulled a 500 MHz Celeron out of the motherboard and plugged a 1000 MHz Pentium III instead. The motherboard is a VIA Apollo Pro based ECS P6VAP-A+ with the latest BIOS (AWARD 6.00PG, version 1.5b ). The new CPU is a Socket 370 SL5QJ …

I'm curious about your intended use (and platform) of Solaris 8 x86. I've used Solaris (and previously SunOS) quite a bit, mainly on Sparc hardware, although a little bit of the later x86_64 kit from around the time Sun invested heavily in Opteron based systems (which were actually really nice …

Ok, so the only thing you can actually set for the sound part side of that card is the base IO, which tends not to be a problem. https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/sound-cards-multimedia/CREATIVE-LABS-INC-Sound-card-SOUNDBLASTER-16-MCD-A.html Thanks, that's what I'm about to do! This line doesn't inspire …

This SB16 and all other non-PnP ones have their IRQ and DMA set by software, and your driver must specifically be able to do it. Thank you for your response. In fact, this SB16 has its IRQ initially assigned by BIOS, and I'm about to try and change the value from 5 to 2 , 7 or 10 , all of which are …

Hi everyone. I'm trying to set up a non-PnP ISA CT2230 board under Solaris 8. All the jumpers are in their default positions (IRQ 5, IO address 0x220, 8-bit DMA channel 1, 16-bit DMA channel 5): sb16_ct2230.jpg The sound card proved 100% operational and capable of playing 16-bit PCM samples under a …

I confirm the problem. Have a SiI3114 SATARaid downgraded to a SATALink (i. e. flashed with a plain IDE BIOS) in an ECS P6VAP-A+ motherboard (VIA VT82C694X ) -- and can't boot from any of the SATA drives attached to it. The problem is indeed between the motherboard BIOS (Award 6.00PG) and the PCI …