Re: Help identifying/documenting this floppy controller?

Posted on 2024-03-18, 01:00

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by teh_Foxx0rz

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Digging way deeper into search engines and websites I went through the pictures in the list of ROM images on MinusZeroDegrees and came across some cards with some similar banks of jumpers. For instance this card , which has a similar bank of eight jumpers, and here described as capacity/type …

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Help identifying/documenting this floppy controller?

Posted on 2024-03-17, 21:54

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by teh_Foxx0rz

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Picked up this floppy controller a while ago for cheap, but can't seem to track any information about it down online. I've not tested it yet, don't really know how floppy controller configuration works more generally to even guess at it. As it shows in the pictures it says "FDAX-100W" on it, but …

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Diamond Monster Sound MX300 (Aureal Vortex 2) S/PDIF -in-put?

Posted on 2024-03-12, 18:11

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by teh_Foxx0rz

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It seems to be well-enough documented which pin is the S/PDIF out put on the rear connector to the MX25, but which pin is the S/PDIF in put on the MX300? I know the S/PDIF output can be routed into a SoundBlaster Audigy 2 via the AD_EXT connector; however, in this system, I have the front drive bay …

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Re: 12V rail shorted on ISA card - damaged motherboard. Fixable...?

Posted on 2024-03-01, 23:35

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by teh_Foxx0rz

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The power supply is an interesting aspect of this in fact: When I first plugged the culprit card into the board, the power supply I normally have in this PC just wouldn't start. It would nudge the fans but nothing else. Naturally, because it's old, I thought the power supply was dead. So I tried a …

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Re: 12V rail shorted on ISA card - damaged motherboard. Fixable...?

Posted on 2024-03-01, 08:44

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Alright, on some level, I didn't really need to make this thread, turns out the problem was pretty obvious haha. But it was right at the top edge of the board, and I was more inclined to check more centrally on the board, and nearer the expansion slots. So I suppose a more confident reiteration of …

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12V rail shorted on ISA card - damaged motherboard. Fixable...?

Posted on 2024-02-06, 15:43

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by teh_Foxx0rz

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I bought myself a ReelMagic CD Lite (the long ISA MPEG-1 decoder card) and was eager to play around with the handful of games which specifically require it. It was listed as "tested and working", so naturally I figured it'd be a matter of putting it in and testing it (and simply not getting …

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Re: Strange graphics glitches in multiple games on Windows XP

Posted on 2023-12-11, 18:54

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Alrighty, I tried with different RAM sticks but had no change in behaviour. However, just to explore everything after now being so certain that it's not a hardware issue, after having the same issue on so many cards, I looked into what drivers people were recommending for this series of cards on …

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Re: Strange graphics glitches in multiple games on Windows XP

Posted on 2023-12-06, 19:57

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So, update on this topic. I've tried a whole bunch of different late AGP, high-end Nvidia graphics cards (6600, 6800 and 7800) and they all seem to have this issue. Either these have all aged really poorly and no one is speaking about it, or the issue isn't actually the graphics cards themselves. …

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Re: Trying to get a PCI SCSI controller working to test & back up SCSI hard drives.

Posted on 2023-11-09, 15:24

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by teh_Foxx0rz

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Card arrived and it's all working straight away with no hassle. Didn't even have to put the "Force SE" jumper on. Cheers everyone.

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Re: Trying to get a PCI SCSI controller working to test & back up SCSI hard drives.

Posted on 2023-11-07, 22:26

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by teh_Foxx0rz

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No LEDs no. But no broken pins.

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Re: Trying to get a PCI SCSI controller working to test & back up SCSI hard drives.

Posted on 2023-11-07, 22:10

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I know the Force SE jumper is there, so I was just going to try things without that and then add it on if that doesn't work. Seems like a pretty simple concept to me xP And alright alright, here's the cable I have to put that to rest lmao. It is long, but it doesn't seem even close to the three …

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Re: Trying to get a PCI SCSI controller working to test & back up SCSI hard drives.

Posted on 2023-11-07, 19:21

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I've not tried powering on that server yet. And even if I had, it's really huge and likely really noisy; it has two PSUs inside one big power chassis, and it wouldn't be straightforward to replace them pre-emptively in case they had any issues (although I've checked inside and the capacitors seem …

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Re: Trying to get a PCI SCSI controller working to test & back up SCSI hard drives.

Posted on 2023-11-07, 18:15

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by teh_Foxx0rz

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Yeah, I've got an Adaptec AHA-2940UW on the way now for really cheap, and I already seemed to have the appropriate cable and terminator in a server tower I don't want to test yet (which has SCSI integrated into its motherboard). Fingers crossed for this. By the way, by this point it bears saying …

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Re: Trying to get a PCI SCSI controller working to test & back up SCSI hard drives.

Posted on 2023-11-07, 14:38

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by teh_Foxx0rz

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I tried "Force SE" on what I have and it didn't work, remember? And, I think I'm understanding enough to know that SE is not the same as "narrow", so what you're saying isn't really making sense.

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Re: Trying to get a PCI SCSI controller working to test & back up SCSI hard drives.

Posted on 2023-11-07, 12:35

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by teh_Foxx0rz

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So it would work if I set the drive to Force SE? All I want to do is read and backup the drives so I don't care about anything fancy.

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Re: Trying to get a PCI SCSI controller working to test & back up SCSI hard drives.

Posted on 2023-11-07, 11:09

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by teh_Foxx0rz

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On the controller card you have, it the option to Send START UNIT command option set to ON? Good Idea. teh_Foxx0rz, do you hear spinning sound from your hard disk? Yeah it spins up just fine. Sounds pretty healthy. Also, I'm looking at getting an Adaptec AHA-2940UW. Saw another thread on here which …

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Re: What's this strange SCSI card?

Posted on 2023-11-06, 22:26

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by teh_Foxx0rz

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So, I got that Tekram SCSI controller working, and tested the strange SCSI card! It doesn't reveal anything new, but I can share what it looks like in the SCSI configuration. I guess the new thing is that it mentions "CD-ROM", but perhaps that's just what it was best for them to have it behave like, …

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Re: Trying to get a PCI SCSI controller working to test & back up SCSI hard drives.

Posted on 2023-11-06, 21:18

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Ok, I have 2 of same docks you have but 2 different caddies - one has wide cable, one . May I you post a picture of the caddy (without hard disk) please? My docks seem to be the same, but their behaviour is different on my 2 caddies - as far as differential is concerned. I actually have two kinds …

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Re: Trying to get a PCI SCSI controller working to test & back up SCSI hard drives.

Posted on 2023-11-06, 20:05

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by teh_Foxx0rz

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So yeah, like the others were saying, the high bytes aren't getting terminated. Looks like I'll just get a wide SCSI controller with the right connector. They're not really much pricier than those sorts of adapters seem to be. Looks like I already have the cables and terminator from some server …

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Re: Trying to get a PCI SCSI controller working to test & back up SCSI hard drives.

Posted on 2023-11-06, 19:31

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by teh_Foxx0rz

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The adapter from eBay is a 50-pin to 68-pin. The bay for the caddy has a 68-pin connector on the back, as shown in that photo in my previous post. The drive and caddy have a single long connector which looks like it must be this 80-pin SCA connector.

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