Re: Retrobrite + grow light

Posted on 2018-09-17, 03:39

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by feipoa

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Is there a link (video or text) which mentions in more detail a type of cook book recipe for using a grow light? Ideally, I'd want to use the most minimal requirements for the job. I'm a little concerned that the police might come knocking on my door though. Apparently, the utility companies can …

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Re: adaptec 1542cf, sound blaster awe32 pnp, 3com etherlink III in a 486/WFW 3.11?

Posted on 2018-09-17, 03:23

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by feipoa

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

@tayyare Thanks! Disabling PNP on the Etherlink III worked! Everything's working now. I've run into this issue a few times myself. Then I forget how I fixed it, years pass, I pull a new Etherlink III out of the bin, and run into the same issue again. It can be difficult to remember ever setup …

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Re: Dual channel U320 SCSI, any benefit?

Posted on 2018-09-17, 02:37

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by feipoa

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks for your reply, but I am still confused. Is it better (overall faster) to use this Adaptec SCSI host controller in RAID or non-RAID mode? To clarify, you've never seen a RAID built across two SCSI channels and are, therefore, uncertain if it will be of any speed benefit? Could you please …

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Re: Recent WinXP/POS2009 update causes errors with PIII systems

Posted on 2018-09-16, 15:17

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by feipoa

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CPU-World lists it as having 77 W TDP. That is a beast. Are you creating a restore point in XP, or using a clone HDD backup to restore?

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Re: Grand Theft Auto + DOS + Voodoo2

Posted on 2018-09-16, 14:44

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by feipoa

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Trivial indeed! This game doesn't want you to have EMM386 loaded. Is that pretty standard for DOS glide games? Or is there a particular setting you need to use when loading EMM386?

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Re: Grand Theft Auto + DOS + Voodoo2

Posted on 2018-09-16, 13:46

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by feipoa

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This was about 3 weeks ago now, so I don't recall exactly what I did. I can try installing the VOodoo2 drivers again, but does a DOS-based glide game care about installed Windows drivers? Am I supposed to add c:\Windows to PATH in autoexec.bat? EDIT: Deleted VOodoo2 card; reinstalled the drivers; …

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Re: Recent WinXP/POS2009 update causes errors with PIII systems

Posted on 2018-09-16, 13:44

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by feipoa

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Nice to see someone is keeping this up-to-date. I wonder why some Windows updates need SSE2, while others do not. Different programmer? Different compiler? Microsoft caved to pressure and is going with SSE1 until the end of support?

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Re: Dual channel U320 SCSI, any benefit?

Posted on 2018-09-16, 04:11

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by feipoa

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Oh, is it better to use this SCSI card in non-RAID mode then? Or even in non-RAID mode, its still sucking up CPU? Can't be worse than IDE, can it? SCSI RAID was all drives on a single cable I don't quite follow this sentence. Are you saying that I cannot split the RAID up between the channels? Is …

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Re: Absurd prices for vintage hardware?

Posted on 2018-09-16, 03:51

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by feipoa

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think even the smaller, non-asian based sellers have mutiple ebay accounts.

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Dual channel U320 SCSI, any benefit?

Posted on 2018-09-15, 21:19

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by feipoa

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I've noticed that some of these U320 SCSI cards, e.g. Adaptec ASC-39320A, are dual channel, that is, they have two 68-pin connectors for U320. The manual mentions that this is done so that you can have one channel for U320, and to use the other channel for more legacy devices. This way, your U320 …

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Re: NS Geode GX1 / Cyrix MediaGM - Double sided memory required?

Posted on 2018-09-15, 20:51

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by feipoa

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It is fairly common when pushing memory timings to the limit that the larger size RAM's won't work. The more RAM the system/chipset has to deal with, the more resources are required (or so it seems). I've run into this time and time again. I can run my IBM 5x86c-133/2x, for example, with only 1 ws …

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Grand Theft Auto + DOS + Voodoo2

Posted on 2018-09-15, 12:21

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by feipoa

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I have Grand Theft Auto installed to C:\Games\GTA, in which the DOS version is in C:\Games\GTA\gtados and the Windows version is in C:\Games\GTA\gtawin . Does anyone know how to get glide working in this game in DOS, or from within Windows? When I load gtados.bat from within Windows, the screen goes …

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Re: How to clone SCSI HDD's from Adaptec AHA-2842A (VLB)

Posted on 2018-09-15, 00:17

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by feipoa

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

In this case, it didn't seem to need fdisk /mbr.

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Re: How to clone SCSI HDD's from Adaptec AHA-2842A (VLB)

Posted on 2018-09-14, 23:51

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by feipoa

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Alright, memory fuzzy, but came back. The issue was the missing copy of the boot sector for NT4 to see. So with the cloned HDD, I booted into NT4 and ran: dd if=\\?\Device\Harddisk0\Partition0 of=bootsect.w95 bs=512 count=1 All is back to normal. Half of this was a memory forgetting excercise, while …

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Re: How to clone SCSI HDD's from Adaptec AHA-2842A (VLB)

Posted on 2018-09-14, 23:39

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by feipoa

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

OK, so the clone was successful concerning the translation scheme. It went back to 255/63. However, I am left with the original problem. With the cloned drive, I go to boot, it shows the NT boot menu, I select WIndows 95, press enter, then I get "Invalid System Disk" "Replace the disk, then press …

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Re: NS Geode GX1 / Cyrix MediaGM - Double sided memory required?

Posted on 2018-09-14, 23:31

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by feipoa

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

From my experience with my Cyrix Media GXm-266 board, it needs to use single sticks of 128 MB (chips on both sides of the module - double sided). For 256 MB, you need to use two 128 MB sticks. I am able to use 256 MB CL3 just fine, but if I want to use CL2, I needed to reduce the total memory size …

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Re: How to clone SCSI HDD's from Adaptec AHA-2842A (VLB)

Posted on 2018-09-14, 23:23

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by feipoa

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OK. It looks like the ghost disk has a hidden config.sys file. I was able to add aspi7dos.sys to it. It loaded successfully when booting from the Ghost boot disk. I am now able to access both HDD's in Ghost. Ghost does mention that the HDD may not work with large HDD sizes. The Adaptec BIOS also …

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Re: Voodoo 1 vs. Voodoo 2 on a 486

Posted on 2018-09-14, 22:36

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by feipoa

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Yeah, I found that intersting as well with cache write cycle and main memory speed. ----> Help with SiS 496/497 Tomato 4DPS 486 motherboard The cache/memory and other settings on SiS496 boards are more difficult to figure out and optimise compared with Um8881 boards.

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Re: How to clone SCSI HDD's from Adaptec AHA-2842A (VLB)

Posted on 2018-09-14, 19:22

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by feipoa

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Disruptor, is that all you did? I used my MS-DOS 6.22 and did not load any driver but ASPI7DOS.SYS I did not use the boot disk. Perhaps it helps to use a hex editor and zero all bytes in partition sector. Then cold boot the computer. Oh, I didn't realise you could boot with MS DOS 6.22 and then …

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Re: How to clone SCSI HDD's from Adaptec AHA-2842A (VLB)

Posted on 2018-09-14, 13:16

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by feipoa

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Well, there are only two 4 GB partitions, so the rest is wasted anyway. OK, adding ASPI7DOS.SYS to the GHOST diskette did nothing. How to tell the GHOST diskette to use ASPI7DOS.SYS?

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