Today I configured the PCMCIA ethernet card on both: my thinkpad 560X laptop (dlink DFE-690TXD) and thinkpad 360CE (3Com 3cxe589et) to work on DOS. The d-link was a bit different than the 3Com because before using the packet driver, I had to install the cardsoft drivers (for the PCMCIA slots) and also use an "enabler" software provided by DLINK, which seems to detect the card and assign resources to it. In the end it works well and I like this card: it works on anything from DOS to Windows 7, it requires no "breakable" or "loseable" dongle (contrary to 3Com PCMCIA cards) and it's 10/100 which is fast enough for all my retro needs. The bad side is that the ethernet connector is like a big "tail" on the card, so if I use it on the lower PCMCIA slot, the upper one gets blocked, but so far, so good. The 3Com card is a standard 10Mbps, which only requires the 3c589pd.com packet driver to work. It's not fast, but then again it's on a 486/DX2 50MHz.
BetaC wrote on 2020-07-26, 05:25:
aha2940 wrote on 2020-07-26, 04:49:
Helped my sister's boyfriend to replace the old 10GB HDD on his OG xbox with a newer SATA 120GB one. We spend almost all day on that (had to read a lot of documentation / do many testing) but in the end it worked fine.
It'll be easier in time, and if they eventually get to the point of installing BIOS Mods, it becomes even easier.
Yes, much time went into the locking part of the hard drive, plus the cable replacement required for the SATA drive (original 40-thread PATA cable would not work, had to use an 80-thread one), plus the eeprom.bin thing. We learned a bit, though. We had to softmod the xbox because it's one of the later ones which are harder to have the BIOS modded.