Re: Is my AMD K6-2 400 + voodoo1 underperforming?
Posted on 2025-01-13, 13:10
Do you exceed the maximum cacheable area of your motherboard with that amount of RAM?
Re: Adaptec AHA-1740/42A EISA Controller card, Firmware needed for verification
Posted on 2025-01-09, 16:51
You can read the firmware, build a 16 bit checksum and compare it to the imprint on the sticker of the EPROMs.
Re: DOS 6.22 - 4GB CF Card - 2 primary partitions?
Posted on 2025-01-05, 09:32
Don't create partitions for DOS usage using Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10 or 11. DOS needs classic CHS aligned partition scheme. Above listed operating systems do not care about compatiblity with CHS.
Re: CD-ROM on a 386, how hard can it be? SB16 SBCD.SYS not working
Posted on 2025-01-05, 09:28
MikeSG wrote on 2025-01-05, 09:12: What kind of CD-ROM are you using? The port on the Creative sound card is not IDE, it's 99% likely a Matsushita (MKE)/panasonic interface. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panasonic_CD_interface The port on the CT2950 is IDE.
Re: SCSI Controller Hitachi DXSCS01A1
Posted on 2025-01-02, 20:18
Getting a SCA (80p) scsi device working on a narrow bus can be hit & mis, especially since those tend to be Wide LVD (Low Voltage Differential) devices and your scsi card is only Narrow SE (Single-Ended) More information would be required to investigate further. And with those adapters which likely …
Re: ASUS P5A Rev 1.03 CPU compatibility
Posted on 2025-01-02, 14:04
I think it is. It has the multiplicator setting, it has the voltage. It supports K6-2. And I don't think the BIOS will make a problem. It does not have the 97 MHz clock frequency, so processors like the K6-2 533 need to be clocked at either 525 or 550 MHz, but that does not apply to your 550 MHz …
Re: No space for EMS page frame with PCMCIA drivers
Posted on 2025-01-02, 11:49
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE RAM I=B000-B7FF I=CA00-D7FF X=D800-D8FF X=E000-E7FF X=E800-E9FF X=EAFF-EFFF X=F000-FFFF FRAME=9000 FRAME=9000 is dangerous when having BIOSes who reduce the amount of conventional memory. I have a RAID controller who takes 8 kB. Most of PS/2 mouse support take 1 kB too. …
Re: On partition misalignment
Posted on 2025-01-02, 11:42
Misalignment was the norm because the first partition would start on the second 'cylinder' which was represented as 63 sectors. What's the rationale to explain why this would affect performance on drives that use native 512-byte sectors? Maybe to be on the safe side. Many disks have "hardware" 4k …
Re: Problems adding a CD-ROM drive to a Compaq Deskpro 386/25M
Posted on 2025-01-02, 02:29
After such a massive memory fault I recommend to reinstall all from the scratch. It is likely you'll have corrupted files on your system.
Re: seagate stt220000a tape drive question
Posted on 2024-12-28, 18:13
Yes, tape drives neither have a drive icon nor a drive letter. They are backup devices.
Re: How to cram 1.44 MB onto a 1.2 MB diskette?
Posted on 2024-12-26, 13:16
And the starting position of the following head/track are optimized in that way that there will be less time until the first sector approaches. Format skew. It's calculated based on the fact that a step on a modern floppy drive takes 3ms, so sector 1 should appear after that time. Of course that …
Re: Fanatical gamers, 25+, with autism - interview
Posted on 2024-12-26, 09:40
Qualified in all 3 categories. But for me medical questions must be in German. (Oh, it's an official language in Belgium)
Re: Getting a SCSI Compaq 35/70 GB DLT Tape drive running on a Windows 98 system
Posted on 2024-12-24, 11:42
Your Compaq 35/70 GB DLT Tape drive has a LVD SCSI connector. So it is recommended to use a LVD SCSI controller. So try to get an Adaptec 2940U2W or 19160. Then you need a LVD SCSI cable with terminator. That's all.
Re: Windows for Workgroups TCP/IP Disk
Posted on 2024-12-23, 14:04
On the CD of Windows NT 4.0 Server there are some clients in the CLIENTS directory: Copy code to clipboard 1 LANMAN 2 LANMAN.OS2 3 MSCLIENT 4 RAS 5 RPL 6 SRVTOOLS 7 SUPPORT 8 TCP32WFW 9 UPDATE.WFW 10 WIN95
Re: Data Delivery Board
Posted on 2024-12-23, 10:03
During bootstrap your EISA BIOS will complain about changed or incorrect hardware. The next step is to run an ECU: When you (re)configure your system with an ECU (Eisa Configuration Utility) it will ask for the driver. It will say which !XXXYYYY.CFG file it needs. XXX = Manufacturer YYYY = Device
Re: Mp3 decoder
Posted on 2024-12-23, 09:00
Haven't there been older WinAMP versions that had a switch "Integer decoding"?
Re: How to cram 1.44 MB onto a 1.2 MB diskette?
Posted on 2024-12-23, 08:11
VGA-Copy cares about the gaps. All the software that allows tricky format does I think, but the issue here seems to be hardware related (4-floppy controller installed). VGA-Copy even manages the gaps in a way that tracks can be read faster. It is likely that the 18 sectors of an 1.44 MB disk have …
Re: How to cram 1.44 MB onto a 1.2 MB diskette?
Posted on 2024-12-22, 13:02
The floppy in 5.25" drives spins faster than in 3.5" drive (360 vs 300 rpms) so you can't fit 18 sectors on it without making the gaps shorter. These are gaps between each header and sector data, and next header, as well as the very first and last gap (PC doesn't really use track headers). Too …
Re: How to cram 1.44 MB onto a 1.2 MB diskette?
Posted on 2024-12-19, 17:12
Well, you may try VGACopy. It is freeware now. https://archive.org/details/vgacp625 To open 1.44 MB 5.25" floppies in DOS, you may try to search for the VGARead driver.
Re: Which of the three common mid 90s CDROM interfaces is easiest to find a working drive for?
Posted on 2024-12-18, 20:55
Mitsumi FX-001D should read CD-R The Mitsumi adapters also can use DMA transfers. The interfaces on the soundcards most likely just support PIO transfer.
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