I'm attempting to build a machine for DOS/3.1/98/XP/Linux, and I've about had it with PATA drives from the Stone Age. They're all pretty much either already dead or will die within the first four weeks of current day use. Gotek emulators have become a very popular solution for floppy drives, so …

Now I'm going about getting some smaller hard IDE hard drives, because my 750GB and 400GB ones are apparently inconceivable to the BIOS. (re: 8GB limit -- how did we ever live with these limitations?) :) I've got a nice SCSI card with its own Adaptec BIOS and a 300GB SCSI drive though, so I'm …

Most boards I've had with voltage monitoring, you could arrow down to the -5V and set it to "Ignore" ... could ignore any in fact, if say your multimeter said 12V and your monitoring said 7 or 23. I've confirmed that my AWE64 card does not have any finger contact for ISA pin 5, so -5V doesn't …

Or at least, this is the first time I've built a P3 system since the actual P3 era. At the time, I didn't have to put so much thought into it, since I could just buy things that were for sale retail at the time and have a fair assurance of compatibility. I'm finding now that power supplies on P3-era …

Because I'm a musician doing retro-sequencing rather than trying to do retro-gaming like most people I see in forums, I think what I'm wanting to accomplish may be the exact opposite of what every howto and article on this subject is trying to accomplish. Namely, instead of trying to get some kind …