Re: Getting Sata to work in IDE mode on WIndows 98 - Help Please

Posted on 2020-05-22, 00:48

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by jakethompson1

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I'll add, if driver+mscdex work, that will be a way to at least make it accessible in Windows until you find another solution. I once had one of those Philips external drives with a proprietary ISA controller card that I used this way.

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Re: Getting Sata to work in IDE mode on WIndows 98 - Help Please

Posted on 2020-05-22, 00:46

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by jakethompson1

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I don't have answers but I'm curious whether an atapi CD driver and mscdex work in DOS mode? I thought the whole point of IDE compatbility mode was to be, well, IDE compatible. So you'd think it would at least work slowly under Windows. Maybe windows has a whitelist of pci ids or something and it …

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Re: Retro DOS/Win98SE/XP build

Posted on 2020-05-21, 21:04

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by jakethompson1

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If you're going to put in an ISA sound card, I'd go ahead and narrow down and say it will be DOS/98 based. It's DOS games where having a true Sound Blaster compatible (with working ISA DMA) is helpful as XP games will use Windows drivers and therefore be neutral to what card you actually have. A …

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Re: 5.25 1.2mb floppy drive is seen as 360kb

Posted on 2020-05-20, 20:17

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by jakethompson1

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Aw. I feel so noob right now. Thank you very much! Two more bonus questions: Will HD disks be recognized automatically ? I'm using ddrescue to restore disks, is there a better way/program? As far as HD disks being recognized, the /dev/fd0 device node is supposed to autodetect disks. There are other …

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Re: Toshiba T1910 - Serial port issue

Posted on 2020-05-20, 17:22

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by jakethompson1

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Debug will read from stdin if you want to do it that way. I'm surprised no one has chimed in about this though, you'd think if all Toshibas of this model worked this way it would be widely known.

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Re: Toshiba T1910 - Serial port issue

Posted on 2020-05-19, 19:25

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by jakethompson1

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Yes, weird. I wonder if the BIOS settings are stored in the boot sector rather than in CMOS or something. DEBUG also has an e command you can use to overwrite things in memory. You could try to use that to write an F8 at 40:00 and an 03 at 40:01 and then exit and run msd. Even if this works, it's …

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Re: What was the last retail ISA sound card?

Posted on 2020-05-19, 02:56

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by jakethompson1

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I got a retail Sound Blaster kit around 1999 or so from a big-box store. It was supposed to be a combo of a PnP Sound Blaster 16 ISA card, and a 48x IDE CD-ROM drive. Inside was a 52x CD-ROM drive and a note explaining that it was faster. I can't find any traces of this kit online from searching …

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Re: Windows 2000 on single Pentium Pro

Posted on 2020-05-19, 00:49

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by jakethompson1

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I don't know about 2000 but it seems that system would fly on NT 4.

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Re: What was the first computer you ever purchased?

Posted on 2020-05-18, 20:34

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by jakethompson1

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I was in elementary school and bought an IBM PS/2 30-286 at a yard sale for like $25 or so. Learned a lot of DOS on it, plus it was the first machine I had access to where I could "format c:" and reinstall as often as I wanted as part of learning.

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Re: Toshiba T1910 - Serial port issue

Posted on 2020-05-18, 18:11

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by jakethompson1

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I mean the i/o port in addition to IRQ. Try this, both with the original hdd and the replacement one. Run the DOS debug command at the - prompt type: d 40:00 The first two bytes dumped should be F8 03. To get out of the - prompt just type q It will be interesting if the result differs depending on …

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Re: CD-ROM drives that "lose the strength" to open

Posted on 2020-05-18, 17:29

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by jakethompson1

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Could still be the belt slipping allowing it to open close the tray but not to fully load the mechanism (raising the laser spindle assembly into position). Try operating the mechanism manually or slamming the tray shut with some enthusiasm in the hope that the inertia completes the loading movement …

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Re: CD-ROM drives that "lose the strength" to open

Posted on 2020-05-18, 04:22

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by jakethompson1

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Thanks everyone. I just got an eBay drive that wouldn't open. Unfortunately, I didn't test whether it could read CDs otherwise prior to working on the belt... I did the degrease + hot water trick to the belt on the drive and it now opens and closes on its own. However, when I put a disc in, it …

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Re: Toshiba T1910 - Serial port issue

Posted on 2020-05-17, 19:34

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by jakethompson1

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When it successfully detects the serial port, does it say what IRQ and I/O port? This is just speculation but I wonder if part of the configuration that normally goes in the BIOS is actually on the HD, or alternatively, if whatever is on the old HD is filling in some info in RAM that DOS uses to …

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Re: Green tint - CRT monitor

Posted on 2020-05-17, 19:07

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by jakethompson1

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This sounds like a bad cable to me. I have seen many monitors where the cable has got damaged where it enters the monitor, if you wiggle the cable can you get proper colors back ? Moving the cable around seemed to be correlated with the flickering at first, but it doesn't do anything now. I wonder …

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Re: Suggestions for a 98SE Era Build?

Posted on 2020-05-17, 19:01

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by jakethompson1

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Hello! I did something similar a few years ago although I'm not personally too intense into gaming - https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=45835 For sound some are super into whether it uses a hardware OPL3 chip for MIDI or emulates it as the later Sound Blasters and compatibles did. The ESS …

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Green tint - CRT monitor

Posted on 2020-05-17, 18:50

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by jakethompson1

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I have a NEC Accusync 700 CRT monitor that I bought new in box a few years ago (a bit expensive, but hey). Everything displayed on it has a greenish tint now. It started out flickering between normal and greenish, and now it's always greenish. The on-screen display to adjust brightness/contrast/etc. …

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Re: CD-ROM drives that "lose the strength" to open

Posted on 2020-05-17, 18:37

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by jakethompson1

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Thanks for all the replies. After searching I do see some info online about replacing the belt with a plumbing o-ring so if that works I'll be able to revive this drive and perhaps some others I have. It seems like drives used to be more reliable, but I suspect it's a combination of two things: (1) …

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CD-ROM drives that "lose the strength" to open

Posted on 2020-05-17, 04:27

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by jakethompson1

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First post in a long time. Anyone found any solutions to old CD-ROM drives that seem like they lose the strength to open on their own? That is, you push the eject button and it feebly tries (and fails) to open. There is no disc inside so it's not a jam. You can use a paper clip to get it opened but …

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Re: PS/2 keyboard with good n rollover support?

Posted on 2019-11-23, 03:49

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by jakethompson1

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Possibly a Unicomp would do a good job since they presumably still use the original circuitry carried over from Lexmark/IBM and not a cheapened design?

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Re: Making the "ultimate NETWORK boot floppy" ?

Posted on 2016-11-22, 05:59

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by jakethompson1

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Hey Deksor, I can't tell your DOS experience just from reading these posts, so you may already be familiar with this, but in regard to free memory, you know about HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE, loading DOS high, UMBs/LH, etc. and have already tried that stuff to make more room? If you don't already have …

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