Something like Anonymous Cowards one? https://sites.google.com/site/misterzeropage/

Yah, that's great, aiming for something pretty similar. Good tips about the HD floppy... maybe that will work with that 16 bit SCSI/Floppy that I think has an 8 bit mode, but not sure it's BIOS is HD floppy bios too or only HDD BIOS.

What is an ST-05? I've never heard of that one before. ST-05X is an XTA hdd controller.
Whatever you have, I hope it's better than an ST-01 or ST-02. Those are a pain in the arse.

I heard some of the Future Domain 16-bit SCSI controllers can work in 8-bit mode, but I never confirmed this.

Yep, it's not an 05, but a lowly 02, guess I got numbers scrambled when trying to remember several part numbers at once.

Recent finds... 300MB internal SCSI HDD, which approaches infinitely large as far as an XT is concerned when software came 360k at a time. External SCSI CD ROM drives, 2 different, they looked like cased internals so one of them might get put inside, or I might pile one on top, see what the aesthetics look like. And a bus mouse turned up, Logitech, but I'm reading here https://www.oldmouse.com/miscellanea/mousebus.shtml that they were cross compatible, though elsewhere saw that you had to use the driver according to the mouse in use, and need an ATI util to enable port on Mach 8.

Still kind of back burnered on low simmer, playing at PIII era at the moment.

Seagate st01/02 doesn’t have an ASPI driver, so I don’t think it’s possible to use a scsi CD-ROM drive with your card.

Really? Huh, I thought they had a non-bootable card with the same chip sold specifically as a CD-ROM card, with RCA jack audio breakouts.

That could be. Do you have a photo of that kit? I looked for quite a few years and never found the driver.

It was a card I had wayyy back in the day and don't have any more, this is a pic I found of one that most closely matches the pic in my head, which isn't very clear...

Which we notice is a future domain not an ST, though I thought adaptec might have been a possibility too.

Future Domain has ASPI drivers, so CD-ROM drive will work.
The Seagate cards apparently licensed the Future Domain chips for their ST-01/02, but there was a customisation made to the silicon swapping two bits around which made them incompatible with Future Domain software. I heard talk it might be possible to patch the drivers, but nothing ever came of it.

Riiight, that's maybe what made me think "same chip" some linux driver discussion in the 90s when I was thinking of using it in a linux box. Funnily enough what killed that adventure was not the crappiness of the card, but the discovery that the external CD ROM drive I picked up for what should have struck me as "suspiciously" cheap, was actually a Mitsumi external and not a SCSI.

Just snarfed some 8 bit goodies Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today so been thinking about this again. Got two Vid cards to choose from now I guess with that PVGA1A rolling in. Mach8 might have more stones but the Paradise might have more custom period stuff to play with. Then the Voyetra OP-4001 card opens up MIDI. The UMC floppy card there has for sure 1.44MB support on XT, no wondering how much system BIOS help you need.

In between times (damn 2 years) I discovered I had the right XT 8 Bit IDE hard drives to replicate a hard card, though I'm not sure if that will go better in the 5155. Oh yah, grabbed some SCSI bits a couple of months back, cable and adapters which may help the cause.

Possibilities stacking up a bit much here, I'm gonna end up needing an expansion chassis 🤣 I do maybe have a riser I could abuse to get 10 slots.

Lemme think, 1 vid, 2 for drives, 2 sound, 1 EMS, 1 NIC, 1 par/ser ... that's if the board takes a full 640 or a bit more, otherwise I'm out. If the NIC takes an XTIDE BIOS with floppy support, then maybe 16 bit i/o card in there with floppy, par, 2 ser. Though I'm reading some other places that other 8 bit SCSI don't "do" CDROMs either, but definition of working is hard to nail down if it's ppl who are unaware that booting CD was not a ubiquitous feature until late 90s. No ASPI is pretty clear nogo.

I think I have the same PVGA1A card. I've only ever tested it to see if it worked (it does).
Is there anything special about it? I've been using VGA Wonders for years, and never had an issue with them.
The way I see it, if you want to play crappy CGA games then just get a CGA card.

Oooh yeah - Super XT 2023! Settled on the motherboard yet? Thought about hot-rodding with an open-source XT BIOS (GLaBIOS, etc)?

Anonymous Coward wrote on 2023-05-29, 14:23:

I think I have the same PVGA1A card. I've only ever tested it to see if it worked (it does).
Is there anything special about it? I've been using VGA Wonders for years, and never had an issue with them.
The way I see it, if you want to play crappy CGA games then just get a CGA card.

There was a couple apps, games and demo known that had special Paradise mode 800x600x16, but I think they have been patched to work on other cards now so no longer unique.

FrankieKat wrote on 2023-05-31, 19:48:

Oooh yeah - Super XT 2023! Settled on the motherboard yet? Thought about hot-rodding with an open-source XT BIOS (GLaBIOS, etc)?

2025 maybe, I move at speeds that make glaciers look sporty 🤣 Yah, still got a box of motherboards unfound, think it's at back of a double stack somewhere.

XT board located in less than ideal circumstances (shed collapse) Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread. maybe means this project is ON this winter after mucho board restoration.