Re: LCS-6941 - BIOS upgrade

Posted on 2017-02-16, 08:35

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by tikoellner

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm IMPRESSED! Yesterday I written Longshine Technologie GmbH, the company that manufactured the card about 25 years ago and asked them to send me the manual and the drivers. Today in the morning they sent me the scan of the manual and the link to the most recent drivers! Such a great support! I …

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Re: LCS-6941 - BIOS upgrade

Posted on 2017-02-16, 07:10

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by tikoellner

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Oh, that's a though question! I don't own that controller nor do I know anything about it, so I can only speculate. Perhaps you need all three of them (BIOS files) ? The odd/even chips are maybe those which are close to each other (-202 E -> even, 202 O -> odd). And the EPROM on the far right is …

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Re: LCS-6941 - BIOS upgrade

Posted on 2017-02-16, 00:05

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by tikoellner

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah... a though question, I know. I see that most of these cards have three BIOS chips. I have no idea what for?

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LCS-6941 - BIOS upgrade

Posted on 2017-02-15, 23:06

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by tikoellner

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hey there. I have acquired LCS-6941 caching controller based on Promise chip and Harris 286 20mhz CPU. Now I found this BIOS upgrade that is said to add LBA support to the card: 6941D350.EXE 224097 ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ Û Release Information: LCS-6941 Û Û Drivers & Utilities for …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-02-15, 10:10

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by tikoellner

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

F-19 was my first simulation game ever and I'm overwhelmed with nostalgia everytime I look at this pretty box or hear the intro tune 😀 All Microprose issues are superb. Thick manuals, maps, all that stuff.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-02-15, 07:45

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by tikoellner

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I bought this neat VLB caching controller yesterday (paid e-bay price :(): http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii603/tikoellner/_57_zpstbedayzs.jpg It's Longshine LCS-6941 Rev. C. I decided to get it to brake my ASUS VL/I-486SVGO hdd size limit (504mb). Unfortunaltelly it does not support CD-ROM, …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-02-12, 20:45

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by tikoellner

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Today I got this caching VLB IDE controller. It's LCS-6941 rev. C. I decided to buy it as my VLB mobo (ASUS VL/I-486SVGO) does not seem to support LBA: http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/ODEyWDE2MDA=/z/u0wAAOSw4shX3vQr/$_57.JPG I found some firmware update here (http://manual.longshine.de/5_Old_Product_ …

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Re: 486 - problem with 2.1gb CF (FDISK reports 503mb)

Posted on 2017-02-08, 20:52

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by tikoellner

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Found the probable answer (nasty!): BIOS Ignorance: This is truly an ugly issue. Some systems with an older BIOS correctly reports the true number of logical cylinders of the drive, making you think the motherboard and BIOS (your system) supports the full size of the hard disk. In reality, the BIOS …

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Re: 486 - problem with 2.1gb CF (FDISK reports 503mb)

Posted on 2017-02-08, 09:49

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by tikoellner

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, this board is an early revision (1.2). But it has 1994 BIOS and exactly the same chipset as the newer ones - and it actually detects full CF size in BIOS. I will try to completely remove any partitions on the card and try to make a native partition in FDISK provided with win98 boot disk. Will …

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486 - problem with 2.1gb CF (FDISK reports 503mb)

Posted on 2017-02-07, 23:32

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by tikoellner

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hey there. I ran into some problems with my 486 VLB build. My board is ASUS VL/I-486SVGO (not VL/I-486SV2G). It runs AWARD 4.50G BIOS (April 1994 version). I am currently using an old IBM HDD which is about 250mb, as a teporary solution. During the weekend I tried to install 2.1gb CF card instead. …

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Re: 486 VLB mobo with only one IDE channel?

Posted on 2017-02-03, 15:39

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by tikoellner

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thank you guys. It seems like my intuition was wrong. And how about I get some IDE controller with internal BIOS supporting two channels? Will that "override" this limitation?

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Re: 486 VLB mobo with only one IDE channel?

Posted on 2017-02-02, 21:07

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by tikoellner

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

No, it's not integrated. I have actually never seen any VLB mobo with an integrated controller (maybe one PCI-VLB combo has it). I have couple of external VLB controllers: one Promise, one UMC and some other one. One of them has two sets of HDD headers. So you assume that it's only a matter of the …

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486 VLB mobo with only one IDE channel?

Posted on 2017-02-02, 20:54

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by tikoellner

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sorry for my ignorance (again). I recently set up a retro rig that is based on ASUS VL/I-486SVGO motherboard (rev. 1.2.) with 486DX2 ODPR. As you all know, this board - contrary to VL/I-486SV2 - is not widely known and you can't even get a manual for it anywhere on the web. It works very well and I …

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Re: ASUS VL/I-486SV2GX4 - no post :(

Posted on 2017-01-19, 19:14

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by tikoellner

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Some update. While I have totally given up trying to fix this board, I was searching for some replacement. Finally I found some cheap strudy 486 setup with similar motherboard. It's an older ASUS VL/I-486SVGO that came with 486DX2ODPR and 4mb RAM onboard. The good thing is that the board works. I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-01-09, 21:03

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by tikoellner

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Nowadays Batyra totally dominated Polish thrift market for ISA soundcards. :dead: Kidding. I have my humble purchas to show. Absolutely nothing special (386sx-40|), but just look how small this guy is: http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii603/tikoellner/be1d209d4b8d914a2120cee37e89_zpsxfxnzu09.jpg …

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Re: List of rarest PC soundcards

Posted on 2017-01-05, 06:28

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by tikoellner

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in Marvin \ Sound

Some photos of CT-1320A from my latest post:

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Re: List of rarest PC soundcards

Posted on 2017-01-04, 21:36

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by tikoellner

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Would you consider Creative Sound Blaster CT-1320A rare nowadays? I own one and love it - I've never seen any other on sale. Not featured anywhere on youtube, no reviews, nothing I could find. The card is noisy as hell and obsolete, but somehow I love to have it. I think it's almost as rare as the …

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Re: ASUS VL/I-486SV2GX4 - no post :(

Posted on 2016-12-31, 11:34

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by tikoellner

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes, I just did. I tried DX, DX2, DX4 settings, and three different FPM modules (1x4mb, 2x4mb, 1x16mb and 1x32mb). I also played with voltage jumpers (JP16). Tried with and without video card, etc. No beep, no video. If you didn't live in Canada, I would happily send the board to you for revision 😀 …

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Re: ASUS VL/I-486SV2GX4 - no post :(

Posted on 2016-12-31, 11:01

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by tikoellner

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes, tried about 4 cards, 2 ISA and 1 VLB. Update: The BIOS was successfully written on a chip and verified. Still, the board remains dead. No beeps, nothing. I think I'm done here, as I don't know what more should I do. I think all this may suggest some invisible component damage.

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Re: ASUS VL/I-486SV2GX4 - no post :(

Posted on 2016-12-30, 20:20

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by tikoellner

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ok, I will :--) I just thought that if the particular chip - as the one in question - has the window (and thus is erasable in the UV light) it may then be used again. I might be wrong though, as I'm not particularly strong with elecronics.

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