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jbenam wrote on 2020-12-16, 17:35:

Hi everyone, […]
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Hi everyone,

I have bought this card some months ago for cheap and I can't find ANYTHING about it on the interwebz, except that it was somewhat popular as it was extremely low price back then.

There are drivers for it on a French website (thanks!) but they aren't helping me much with the little issue of jumpers, of which this card is filled to the brim.

I do suspect that this is a Hornet Technology card as the BIOS for the VL-200 has the same sticker on mine.

I have noticed that a card with a manual was recently sold on Italian eBay, hopefully one of the members on here snatched it and can upload the manual for everyone? 😁

Anyway, the config currently on the card is kinda working (SCSI works, Floppy works). It might be useful to someone as a reference.

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I am looking for a driver! Perhaps you have?

The only driver you may need is the ASPI driver for Adaptec AIC-6360. For DOS that uses Aspi2dos.sys plus Aspicd.sys if you have a scsi cdrom (plus MSCDEX of course).
EZ-SCSI v3 or newer will have the drivers you need, Squallstrife posted v5 to Vogons drivers and it does have the files you need: http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?file … &menustate=37,0

Horun wrote on 2021-08-15, 16:45:

The only driver you may need is the ASPI driver for Adaptec AIC-6360. For DOS that uses Aspi2dos.sys plus Aspicd.sys if you have a scsi cdrom (plus MSCDEX of course).
EZ-SCSI v3 or newer will have the drivers you need, Squallstrife posted v5 to Vogons drivers and it does have the files you need: http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?file … &menustate=37,0

As far as I understand, in addition to Aspi2dos.sys, need the INIVL300.SYS file which speeds up the work of IDE and SCSI:
"4.3 Enhance Performance Driver Installation. The "INIVL300.SYS" device driver use to enhance both the system's IDE and SCSI I/0 performance by intelligently managing the interaction between the system and I/0 device."

The AIC-25VL05Q VLB EIDE chip may work with adaptec's AVA-2825VL drivers, http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?file … 921&menustate=0

seems to be a stripped down version of the EIDE chip used on that card.

I read thru the DOS driver install and .SYS and it looks for one of three chips configurations "Found AIC-25PC10, Found AIC-25VL06 / AVA-2825, Found AIC-25PC10 in VL mode"
and "Your system uses the 25VL06 VL-Bus-IDE Disk Interface Chip ... " "Your system uses the 25PC10 IDE Disk Interface Chip running . in VESA LocalBus mode. Data Port Transfers are 16 bits wide. "
and "Your system uses the 25PC10 IDE Disk Interface Chip running in PCI LocalBus mode." and then there is also a line father down "25VL01 Mode and Timing registers have been initialized"
so it may work with the card, only way to tell is to try it.

libby, Horun Thanks for the tips! I will try!

bedlam wrote on 2021-08-15, 16:11:

I am looking for a driver! Perhaps you have?

Sorry for the late reply - here it is:

http://www.win3x.org/win3board/viewtopic.php? … age=en&style=30

Thank you for the manual. I will have a play with it again next time my 486 is open 😀