Mostly i found cache vlb controllers from 1993, but basically no “normal” single or dual channel controllers.
Does somebody have photo about “normal” vlb controller from 1993?
Define "normal".
I must be some kind of standard: the anonymous gangbanger of the 21st century.
I don't know about specifically 1993 but these sorts of cards were quite common in the form of a "VLB I/O card" with with IDE, serial, parallel, floppy. A web image search will find you a lot of photos.
If it doesn't have to be 1993, the QD6580 is a nice card if you can find it and it is supported by XTIDE so it can support larger drives that older BIOSes can't.
http://retropc.sk/obrazky/radic/qdi/QD6580vlb.jpg
I have multiple VLB I/O controllers. Some have dual IDE channel, some other not.
I also bought one with SCSI alongside with IDE headers.
But in my i486Dx2 66 MHz I'm using the PT-627 B revision with dual IDE channels with no issues.
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I have a totally "normal" VLB controller from 1993, by that I mean it has 1 floppy controller, 1 IDE controller (single channel), parallel and serial ports (no gameport). Not sure if you're looking for anything else.
You can see from the pictures that all components and PCB are dated late 1992/early 1993.
VLB Motherboards and systems were still being produced into 1996
You gotta wonder why the later all in ones didn’t have udma
TheMobRules wrote on 2022-12-10, 17:03:I have a totally "normal" VLB controller from 1993, by that I mean it has 1 floppy controller, 1 IDE controller (single channel), parallel and serial ports (no gameport). Not sure if you're looking for anything else.
You can see from the pictures that all components and PCB are dated late 1992/early 1993.
thx, this is, what i am looking for. i have more vlb controllers, but mostly late 94, early 95.
the oldest one is a cache controller from very early 94.
it should not be so common, on the google is also mostly 94-95.
There's this list of 214 VLB hard drive controllers
