Re: Find English bios for unknown “Super 286-Z” motherboard

Posted on 2024-02-18, 20:29

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by led178

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A couple of years ago now I picked up this board off of eBay. With it came bios chips that are in Russian and thus, not really useful to me. Hello! Bios in the application. I'm very, very interested in Russian bios :) Big photo https://habrastorage.org/webt/hd/dw/xu/hddwxun8pgm1_o_zignyatv5ny0.jpeg …

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Re: Bios for Citygate Harris 286 motherboard

Posted on 2024-01-01, 16:16

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by led178

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Here's my BIOS dump. Good afternoon! Did you read it with a programmer or program? I can’t try it now, but I’ve been looking for this firmware for a long time! Thanks a lot! If possible, send the firmware to info at theretroweb.com Ok! Now I have the reader/programmer... this is the dump of …

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Re: 0Ah bad sector flag

Posted on 2023-09-09, 10:44

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by led178

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No. MFM hard drive is a dumb device Sorry, I meant controller capabilities. I know that the disk itself is essentially a tape recorder :) Where can I read reviews of MFM controllers? Advertising? Digital archeology is very interesting :) ps: went looking for old encyclopedias and reference books...

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Re: 0Ah bad sector flag

Posted on 2023-09-09, 06:52

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by led178

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MHDD cant remap anything on its own, it can only try and force the drive firmware to do it by repeatedly writing to a bad sector. Is not a fact. On phantom.sannata they suggest that there is an ATA command 50h, 40h (Assign this sector to an alternate location). 9.8 Format track The implementation …

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Re: 0Ah bad sector flag

Posted on 2023-09-08, 13:21

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by led178

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In other words, if the bad sector flag is set on an unstable sector, then format will always consider it bad? (since format itself does not have access to the sector id, and the 0Ah error is returned by the controller itself) How (other than LLF) can I set this mark? In theory, this is one of the …

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Re: 0Ah bad sector flag

Posted on 2023-09-08, 05:58

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by led178

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What are you trying to accomplish? I thought you wanted to add more defects to P-list. Q1 - MHDD 3.0 when trying to remap (I don't know how he does it) just put a bad sector flag, like on MFM. Can anyone come across this? Q2 - Why do bad sector flags ignore format (trying to recover allocation unit …

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Re: 0Ah bad sector flag

Posted on 2023-09-07, 19:21

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by led178

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what does "universal one" mean? PC3000AT utility. This is directly written in the documentation. are you using vintage PC3000 or a modern one? where one could get hands on preferably vintage pc3000 documentation? Old, V12-V14. https://www.acelab.ru/dep.pc/doc.pc3000dos/050530.001/PCST351A.pdf Are …

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0Ah bad sector flag

Posted on 2023-09-07, 08:55

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by led178

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Good afternoon! Please help me figure it out. There is ST351A/X with some defects 40h/80h (in PC3000 terminology) Judging by the documentation for the PC3000, the native utility cannot add or remove defect sheets, everything is done through the universal one. But she cannot hide the defects. In the …

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Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Posted on 2023-08-17, 10:02

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by led178

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https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/universal-fix-for-8-bit-paletted-textures-support.394995/ "As you may know NVidia and AMD/ATI dropped support for the " 8-bit paletted textures" - much used in '90 / early '00 games - in their GPUs/driver suites long time ago, in 2003-2004. Intel still supports it …

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Re: Asus CPU Card (Slocket) Differences

Posted on 2023-07-27, 12:29

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by led178

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maybe this will help? https://web.archive.org/web/20060207171416/ht … .com/slot-t.htm

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Re: Where to find Jumper settings for Audio Drive ES688

Posted on 2023-02-01, 22:23

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by led178

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GuillermoXT wrote on 2021-07-12, 14:17: I got this card recently too but no matter what i try....i can´t get a HDD as master and a Mitsumi 4x IDE as slave running. I also use the XTIDE Bios and it only recognizes port 170h. Have you been able to use XTIDE Bios with boards other than XTIDE and …

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Re: Cheap IDE hard drives on Ebay - Worth trying?

Posted on 2022-10-25, 08:39

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by led178

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rasz_pl wrote on 2022-10-14, 07:38: From IDE era I would avoid Fujitsu, they had quite a big oopsie. 2005 annual report listed HDD litigation-related expenses at 10,220 mil yen = ~$100mil Why give up on great Fujitsu discs if the marriage only started with the MPG series? Although my favorite …

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Re: Need help getting a Compaq 83C875J SCSI card on a normal motherboard

Posted on 2022-10-25, 08:17

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by led178

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Board without bios. NCR SDMS 3.xx can be built into the BIOS of the motherboard, but it does not know the 53c875j chip, version 4 is needed. But it is larger in size and I don’t know how to embed it :( Regular dos drivers are not suitable, you need FWS2ASPI.SYS (https://support.hpe.com/connect/s/ …

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Re: Teac FD235-HS SCSI floppy

Posted on 2022-07-27, 18:40

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by led178

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Uff. A bunch of dependencies. It turned out with AVA-1505 (AIC-6330Q), without BIOS, APSI2DOS 3.68 / TSCSI 4.60, and only after turning it on (not after a hot reboot). PCI 486. It did not work on the AHA-1522A 1.20L AIC-6360Q with or without the BIOS. Failed on Tekram DC-300B And then, unexpectedly, …

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Re: Teac FD235-HS SCSI floppy

Posted on 2022-07-27, 13:08

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by led178

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I checked it as 1.44mb. I'm more concerned about the SCSI part now 😀 What's the point of a floppy drive if you can't get floppy disks to it?

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Re: Teac FD235-HS SCSI floppy

Posted on 2022-07-27, 12:20

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by led178

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Hi all! I got Teac FD-235JS. Represents Teac FD-235J + controller FC-1 https://pic.maxiol.com/thumbs2/1658921055.3165278642.img20220727141402.jpg https://pic.maxiol.com/thumbs2/1658921076.3165278642.img20220727141409.jpg https://pic.maxiol.com/thumbs2/1658921106.3165278642.img20220727141418.jpg …

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Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations

Posted on 2022-05-08, 19:06

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by led178

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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

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Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations

Posted on 2022-05-08, 18:56

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by led178

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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 …

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Re: Socket 4 Chaintech 586IPI

Posted on 2022-05-02, 20:50

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by led178

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amadeus777999 wrote on 2022-04-20, 12:11: Any more scores? What tests do you want?

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Re: VLB IDE cache controllers, benchmark

Posted on 2022-03-08, 09:54

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by led178

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What for? ps: I upgraded my Win98 system to C2D E7500/775i65g (865G/AGP) :E

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