Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations
Posted on 2022-05-08, 19:06
maxtherabbit wrote on 2022-05-08, 18:58: Can you post a picture of that board? I can not now. Plain LS-486E rev.C1
Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations
Posted on 2022-05-08, 18:56
what's even more vexing to me is that I was unable to get any variant of the Adaptec 2940 to work in my LS-486E tried a plain 2940, 2940U, and 2940UW - all cards known working in other machines - and all of them would just hang in a death spiral of rescanning the SCSI bus My ls-486e has built in …
Re: Socket 4 Chaintech 586IPI
Posted on 2022-05-02, 20:50
amadeus777999 wrote on 2022-04-20, 12:11: Any more scores? What tests do you want?
Re: VLB IDE cache controllers, benchmark
Posted on 2022-03-08, 09:54
What for? ps: I upgraded my Win98 system to C2D E7500/775i65g (865G/AGP) :E
Re: VLB IDE cache controllers, benchmark
Posted on 2022-03-07, 23:44
Judging by the inscriptions on the microcircuits, this is a 1992-1993 controller, windows 3.1-3.11 was also released in 92-93. windows nt appeared in 93. Can we say that this controller was optimized for windows? 😀 Ultra DMA first appeared in 1997. Shadow ram enabled.
Re: VLB IDE cache controllers, benchmark
Posted on 2022-03-06, 09:49
Do those fast adapters come with option roms that replace your motherboard int 13 bios call? Of course, like the DC4030VL. I agree with douglar. If you're not seeing any improvement then it's probably missing some kind of storage driver. I checked - the driver (DOSDRV.SYS v3.33) does not affect the …
Re: VLB IDE cache controllers, benchmark
Posted on 2022-03-05, 19:40
You're wrong. First there are fast adapters - QD6580 https://www.phantom.sannata.org/viewtopic.php?p=615622#p615622 appian adi/2 https://www.phantom.sannata.org/viewtopic.php?p=631309#p631309 Promise EIDE2300Plus https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=926400#p926400 And secondly, why do I need Win98 …
Re: VLB IDE cache controllers, benchmark
Posted on 2022-03-03, 10:52
I also tested the DC4030VL-2, the result is very bad. His advertisement promises 14.3mb/s Скриншот 2021-10-09 16.56.16.png Its linear reading is slightly higher than 1mb/s (according to other sources, 1.3mb/s), i.e. even worse than his tekram brother. Writing is about the same (1.1mb/s). The cache …
Re: Ultimate Retro board submissions thread: suggest board edits and/or add new boards here
Posted on 2022-02-20, 21:01
Chaintech 5IPI https://www.ultimateretro.net/en/motherboards/1216 big foto and bios Socket 4 Chaintech 586IPI
Socket 4 Chaintech 586IPI
Posted on 2022-02-20, 11:37
I assembled this wunderwaffe, warm and lamp P60 SX948 on Chaintech 586IPI https://habrastorage.org/webt/0-/t8/1q/0-t81qa2-pwx8rqpb5n4wzg9dkw.jpeg https://habrastorage.org/webt/x9/u4/jo/x9u4jodzy7sfdc2pjlewfwbuxy4.jpeg https://habrastorage.org/webt/ei/ld/r8/eildr8dd6rwzqfec5uy4wfpspew.jpeg https:// …
Re: Building the Ultimate Win98 computer ?
Posted on 2022-02-05, 17:12
If ultimate then like this: https://habr.com/ru/company/kaspersky/blog/535766/
Re: INT13 Extensions to SDMS 3.0 & 4.0 - SCSI by NCR / Symbios Logic / LSI Logic
Posted on 2022-01-31, 00:50
I connected a biosless NCR 810 to the LS-486e, and was surprised by the appearance of the BIOS line! True, after determining the HDD, everything hung. We look at what is there: CBROM 486E.BIN / D CBROM V2.07 (C)Award Software 2000 All Rights Reserved. ******** 486e.bin BIOS component ******** No. …
Re: Do 40 Pin Compact Flash to IDE Adapters need power?
Posted on 2022-01-22, 19:31
I have a adapter with diodes, I had problems with some cards (especially hitachi microdrive), I replaced some with jumpers (5V only).
Re: 286 16mb ram, cdrom driver issues
Posted on 2022-01-07, 15:04
If you still need the eprom dump Good day matskatsaba! Glad to hear you still have the board! Yes, I'm still looking for firmware, it's not urgent, the board has been around for many years and over time it will only get better :) I like rescuing hardware from a landfill and I really don't want to …
Re: INT13 Extensions to SDMS 3.0 & 4.0 - SCSI by NCR / Symbios Logic / LSI Logic
Posted on 2022-01-05, 22:37
If you hapen to have a different version, possibly the 1.20L with >1GB support, that image might be a good starting point. Yes, bios DC-300B and DC-800B are identical. But given the complexity of the task and the rarity of the controller ... I just discovered that bios 1.15 is newer than 1.20L, …
Re: INT13 Extensions to SDMS 3.0 & 4.0 - SCSI by NCR / Symbios Logic / LSI Logic
Posted on 2022-01-05, 12:30
You can read instructions on how to patch you BIOS on my github project. Thank you very much! I'm just playing with the NCR 810 and 875. Could you please post your collection of drivers and firmware from the message above? I want to use them as boot rom. How difficult is it to be extended to other …
Re: 286 16mb ram, cdrom driver issues
Posted on 2021-12-18, 22:52
matskatsaba wrote on 2021-05-09, 09:28: is a board print that I guess the board type: TD60K good afternoon! do you have the ability to read the bios firmware? better programmer. I have the same board and with bios from td60c it does not start. image - https://disk.yandex.ru/d/zxoBBbrYGTQsXw/IMG_2 … …
Re: Adaptec AHA-2940AU BIOS findings
Posted on 2021-11-26, 21:49
weedeewee wrote on 2021-11-26, 16:55: photo of the card, the chip without the sticker and the rom v1.34.2 for those that need it. Thank you very much !!! 1.32 found at the bannister
Re: Adaptec AHA-2940AU BIOS findings
Posted on 2021-11-25, 21:52
Ugh, gave away two of the cards and will have to dig up the third. Might also have another somewhere, but no promises. If I find something, I'll upload it. I tried to restore the archive, there is one byte missing! I could not get. I removed resistor R16 and set a zero resistor to R15. I still …
Re: Adaptec AHA-2940AU BIOS findings
Posted on 2021-11-25, 18:18
dionb wrote on 2021-08-04, 18:36: 1.21 1.30 1.34.2 Could you post all the firmware? They are on http://angelus.rot13.org/2940au/ but both archives are corrupted "2940au v1.34.2.zip: Unexpected end of archive"
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