Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-02-21, 15:58

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by hyoenmadan

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The board is made for running Windows NT4 and Linux/Unix so it does not have a BIOS suitable for running more DEC Alpha specific OSes. This dosnt bother me at all, I will probably run NT4. Who said it doesn't? If i remember well, firmware in these boards can change from AlphaBIOS (Microsoft ARC) to …

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Re: Alternatives to storage devices (hard disk drives) in "legacy" PC's - advice needed

Posted on 2016-02-19, 18:48

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by hyoenmadan

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Also, there was a mention of the OS or controllers not being "flash media aware"... I think you may lose a few features such as TRIM on SSDs, but they should still work properly, after all that is the point of having common interfaces such as IDE or SATA. Here the interface has nothing to do. Flash …

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Re: Alternatives to storage devices (hard disk drives) in "legacy" PC's - advice needed

Posted on 2016-02-19, 16:33

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by hyoenmadan

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Seriously how much writing occurs on a 486 running DOS? I ran Windows 98 on a flash based DOM for years without issues. I was talking about cheap solutions using CF/SD media which aren't designed to scenarios like this, or common SSD media, which requires an SSD aware controller and OS to work …

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Re: Alternatives to storage devices (hard disk drives) in "legacy" PC's - advice needed

Posted on 2016-02-19, 14:48

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by hyoenmadan

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I wouldn't recommend any Flash Memory based solution to replace an HDD in DOS and old windows versions except for very specific embedded solutions were the Flash Disk works as readonly media image and all is written to RAM. The biggest problem comes from the fact that you can't really align DOS …

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Re: Alternatives to storage devices (hard disk drives) in "legacy" PC's - advice needed

Posted on 2016-02-19, 01:28

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by hyoenmadan

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I was thinking about this exact issue a few days ago. I came up with a possible, but high complexity solution, that I intend to try: If you could get an Adaptec 1542 or 2940 into them, you could make a SCSI target on another, more modern PC. You'd need to present an appropriately sized LUN from the …

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Re: Could this be the ultimate fastest system with pure dos sound support?

Posted on 2016-02-17, 04:31

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by hyoenmadan

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I have other problem. I can not to install MS DOS 6.22 on SSD disc Samsung 840 Pro formated on FAT16 in advance by Partition Magic or formated with the format.com during instalation of DOS itself. There an error can "unable FAT16". Any ideas? Thank you. Your partition table values are screwed. You …

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Re: Could this be the ultimate fastest system with pure dos sound support?

Posted on 2016-02-16, 01:05

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by hyoenmadan

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I have a p4 board from an ATM that has 2 ISA slots (or is it 3? I can't remember atm)... I checked this morning and it has the W83628g bridge, so I guess there isn't any point saving it for an isa/p4 setup, right? Before throw your mobo to trash, try the utility that popfuture posted before in DOS …

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Re: Could this be the ultimate fastest system with pure dos sound support?

Posted on 2016-02-14, 20:00

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by hyoenmadan

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But there is some hacking required to get it working. You can read my thread the Retro Friendly Modern PC if you're interested: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=46544&p=473924&hilit=http%3A%2F%2FwwwRUBY+9719VG2AR#p473924l Interesting information! Maybe Rabanik want to to try your utility …

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Re: Could this be the ultimate fastest system with pure dos sound support?

Posted on 2016-02-14, 15:17

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by hyoenmadan

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Anything with ITE IT8888x bridge will work good enough for ISA Sound applications, with DMA support and all that. Anything with Winbond W83628x bridge will be a hit or a miss, as these chips don't offer DMA support as a regular feature. There are some motherboard who wire some support from the main …

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Re: Win 98/ME USB issue

Posted on 2016-02-10, 17:17

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by hyoenmadan

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Which can be back-ported into Win98 (or at least 98SE), can't it? I recall doing some voodoo to get it to work (probably installing that NUSB thing), and after that I never needed a driver for a USB flash drive. Yes, i never said the contrary. But that requires you install the extra "magic voodo" …

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Re: installing an internal IDE zip drive in a 386?

Posted on 2016-02-10, 17:10

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by hyoenmadan

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sorry to be completely naiive but.. what does it matter if its ATA vs ATAPI?? what difference does this make? does this affect compatibility? performance? bootability? There are many quirks about, but basically, ATA derives from old IDE protocol, and was designed for hard disk use only, while ATAPI …

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Re: Win 98/ME USB issue

Posted on 2016-02-10, 00:51

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by hyoenmadan

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@brotalnia: You might have just been lucky that the USB sticks you were using had drivers that shipped with Windows , but looking around on Google, most people aren't so lucky. This. Win98 has a few set of drivers for some USB mass storage chipsets, but it doesn't support this class in a generic …

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Re: Win 98/ME USB issue

Posted on 2016-02-10, 00:16

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by hyoenmadan

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You don't need third party drivers to use flash drives in Windows 98 . The default Microsoft driver works fine, you just have to insert the Windows 98 installation cd when it ask you for drivers and it'll find it there. Incorrect. Win98 doesn't support the USB mass storage device class by default, …

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Re: installing an internal IDE zip drive in a 386?

Posted on 2016-02-07, 06:39

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by hyoenmadan

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@ chinny22, keropi: As far as i see, OP wasn't asking for alternatives or suggestions about buying hardware that he clearly doesn't need. He was asking about Zip drive speed in an 386 machine, if was possible this configuration at all. I don't get why people does this at all. Not only deviates the …

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Re: Flashing the Gotek floppy emulator with HxC firmware

Posted on 2016-01-13, 19:46

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by hyoenmadan

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Guys i have a question... i have a yamaha RM1X (that's a synth groovebox) and it's known that the standard HxC floppy emulator works with this device. Does this mean that the ported firmware in a GOTEK would make the GOTEK device also compatible? If your device supports standard (5 1/4)/(3 1/2) PC …

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Re: How to boot DOS partitions which reside beyond the 8 GB barrier

Posted on 2016-01-07, 20:12

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by hyoenmadan

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Does EZ-Drive or OnTrack Disk Manager support SCSI cards? They may be worth a shot to get around the BIOS limitation on the cards. No, DDOs will not work with SCSI cards, as these are designed for ST-506/ESDI/IDE interface. The only way to fix SCSI card bios limitations is with a direct BIOS …

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Re: How to boot DOS partitions which reside beyond the 8 GB barrier

Posted on 2016-01-03, 15:57

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by hyoenmadan

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Responding to some of the comments posed above: - PLOP did not allow the Win95c partition to boot. - My Asus PVI-486SP3 (1 VLB + 3 PCI) does not recognise the HDD when using the Adaptec AHA-2842A VLB SCSI card. My PC Chips M919 (1 VLB + 3 PCI) also does not recognise the HDD when using the VLB SCSI …

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Re: How to boot DOS partitions which reside beyond the 8 GB barrier

Posted on 2016-01-02, 22:09

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by hyoenmadan

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Is it a problem to use four partitions instead, with C: and D: being small boot partitions, and E: and F: being the respective data partitions? Why he should want 2 small boot partitions? That's only necessary if he wanted to dual boot Windows with any *nix flavor, but this isn't the case. With …

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Re: USB Floppy Emulator / Simulator - Video Review

Posted on 2015-12-29, 23:37

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by hyoenmadan

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The only problem is that these companies overprice this stuff like it's some technology wonder, the cost to manufacture one of these things is more like 15x lower. Components and assembly should indeed be quite cheap. The real cost here is development. After all floppy emulators are not sold in the …

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Re: ISA slot motherboards from AliExpress

Posted on 2015-12-08, 19:18

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by hyoenmadan

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I have several decades of experience following the motherboard industry and I know how it works. It's self evident that you don't know how it works when you ask for motherboard schematics. Those get released for reference designs but never ever for completed designs used in production boards. . If …

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