Re: Attention: Potiential buyers beware to certain SSDs that is set to 520 byte sector please read.

Posted on Yesterday, 09:33

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by eisapc

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The 520 byte sectored disks are a known Problem for SCSI and Fibre Channel Drives as well. While there exists a tool to reset the sector size for (IBM) SCSI drives, I am still looking for a solution for some FC drives I purchased for my Sun Blade 2000.

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Re: IBM PC server 330 memory issue?

Posted on 2023-01-20, 07:17

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by eisapc

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At least for similar Compaq and hp PPro boxes the memory modules does not need to be installed in pairs. Did you have a closer look at the memory sockets? These caused trouble in some of my machines. To clean them you can use a piece of cardboard the thickness of the memory PCBs, soacked with …

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Re: Yet another Compaq Deskpro Dream Machine project

Posted on 2023-01-19, 12:45

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by eisapc

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I have a P60 board for the Deskpro /M but unfortunately it does not work. Tried it with the original backplane it came with as well as in a different machine.

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Re: IBM PC server 330 memory issue?

Posted on 2023-01-17, 09:14

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https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/features-pc-server-330-0 According to this page 128 MB is the max size supported, but support 256MB sticks might be an undoccumented feature. 256 MB do exist but are hard to find, while smaller ones can be easily found in older (Compaq-) servers. The sticks you are …

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Re: ACTION REWIND: a clone of the original IBM PC Action Replay card

Posted on 2023-01-12, 10:12

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Got the original action reply somewhere from a bunch of parts, but never installed it in any PC. I was not aware the board has such extensive features and that there is major request on it. Good for me that I did not sell it on ebay yet, but kept it in storage. Will have to dig it out, to check the …

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Re: Madge / Olicom Rapidfire TokenRing drivers

Posted on 2023-01-12, 10:00

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Despite the IBM TR boards beeing supported well by LINUX I managed to get some Olicom PCI boards working with LINUX too. Olicom provided some closed source driver that is hidden somewhere in my software archive for sure. I remember making it work with a 2.2 kernel required some patchwork, so you …

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Re: Let's fix some PS/2 floppy drives!

Posted on 2023-01-12, 09:36

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by eisapc

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The PS/2 floppy drives are well known for failing capacitors. see also https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=46462 Been there, done that. Good job. Replacement with a standard drive will also spoil the front panel view. IBM used special drive fillers not compatible with standard drives (apart …

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Re: Drive bay rails

Posted on 2023-01-12, 08:38

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I own tons of different drive rails myself, but neither the ones you need, nor the ones I need for myself. Looking for the right rails for my DEC Prioris for years allready. I even dumped nice retro cases due to the total lack of mounting rails. Best workaround might be 3D printing or otherwise …

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Re: IBM PC 330-P90

Posted on 2022-11-08, 10:09

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The driver will not load, because the system is not able to insert to the token ring as long as it is not connected to a MAU like an IBM 8228 or something equivalent. There are token ring switches availiable as well as token ring boards with 100 MBit, but without an ethernet to tr bridge you will …

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Re: Yet another Compaq Deskpro Dream Machine project

Posted on 2022-11-08, 08:04

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Great to hear it is working fine now. Otherwise I could hae provided a spare CPU board, as I have several spares around. The SCSI upgrade is a real improvement. The only pinhole on these machines is finding an adequate graphics solution. There are allmost no high performance EISA graphics boards …

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Re: Resurection Of A Dirty Compaq

Posted on 2022-10-27, 05:27

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Good job. I like these old Deskpros too. Got some 2000, 4000 and 6000 as well as three of the SFF. The 4000 allready has AGP grapfics but with a proprietary slot cover, while the 6000 is the PPro edition of the Deskpro. I was able to grab the graphics memory upgrade as well as the 100 MBit Network …

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Re: Yet another Compaq Deskpro Dream Machine project

Posted on 2022-10-26, 10:43

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Never had any Issues like this with one of my systems. The only one not booting at all was the P60 , but if I remember correct it booted after inserting a 486er CPU board instead

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Re: Performance of ISA/PCI Backplanes?

Posted on 2022-10-20, 10:01

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by eisapc

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The link shows a backplane for PCI/ISA SBCs. The SBCs have the PCI bus behind the ISA slot. There is like VLB no way to get a PCI bus attached to the ISA bus, nor does it make any sense. Instead PCI to ISA bridges were used on allmost any PCI mainboard.

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Re: Looking for a Compaq SP750 Workstation

Posted on 2022-10-20, 09:51

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True the XM600 has an ASUS board inside, should be the P3C-D. The intellistation has the MSI board. I have two complete boxes and a spare board with the memory riser. Nice fact on these machines is that allmost all of them feature an AGPpro slot for high end graphics which is a rare feature. I …

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Re: Looking for a Compaq SP750 Workstation

Posted on 2022-10-19, 07:50

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Just one more crazy collecting these top end machines. Unluckily I dont own a dual P2/3 Xeon workstation yet, only the board of an SP700 which I did not get running so far and several Servers with up to 8 Xeon CPUs. Not sure if the HP Kayak dual Xeon is Rambus based as well, it might be another …

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Re: Yet another Compaq Deskpro Dream Machine project

Posted on 2022-10-14, 06:50

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The Deskpro M is a nice machine, I own several of these myself. The only backdraft is that it uses lots of proprietary parts as many other Compaq machines of that aera. To your questions. - The only way to use a DX 4 is an interposer socket that might collide with the memory board. The Compaq …

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Re: IBM PS/2 80 Series motherboard

Posted on 2022-05-19, 10:30

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Did not know about the actual prices for the Reply Board. Got my system years ago from a fellow MCA-collector for cheap. http://ps-2.kev009.com/ohland-old/misc/mcmaster.html would be another option to upgrade to 486, but may be as hard to find. Got at least one in my collection too.

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Re: Compaq Prolinea 4/66 bay rails (5 1/4) + manual

Posted on 2022-03-25, 10:48

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The rails pictured look like the ones for my Deskpro /n which has a similar case to the Prolinea. the same rails were used for allmost all Compaq Deskpro and Prolinea at the time.

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Re: Celeron, the good bad and ugly.

Posted on 2022-03-25, 10:41

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My only Celeron build is a dual 533 MHz based on a board limited to 66 MHz clock. Despite the unsupported dual capabilities it runs fine and makes the build especially.

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Re: any Vectra fans slinking about?

Posted on 2022-03-25, 09:02

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I own two Vectra 386 RS (20 and 25) towers and some XU6/200 PPro Minitowers. Several Kayaks are in the collection as well and of course numerous Netservers.

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