Davros waits for retro's post " I just bought 2 nvidia gtx 285's for my 486 and they dont work" 😁

Davros wrote:

Davros waits for retro's post " I just bought 2 nvidia gtx 285's for my 486 and they dont work" 😁

But they do! 😜 🤣

/rushes out to buy a pci express 486 motherboard + some magic beans 😁

Davros wrote:

/rushes out to buy a pci express 486 motherboard + some magic beans 😁

I recommend you get the wikiwakiwoo zedex eighty one model, the one with onboard voodoo.

A promise ultra33 on ebay!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Promise-Ultra-33-ATA-ID … %3A1%7C294%3A50

Doesn't she look gorgeous! 😀 🤣

retro games 100 wrote:

A promise ultra33 on ebay!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Promise-Ultra-33-ATA-ID … %3A1%7C294%3A50

Doesn't she look gorgeous! 😀 🤣

Adaptec ATA RAID 2400A - this is what I call gorgeous - 4 ATA channels, dedicated CPU and memory and so extremely long 😀.

GL1zdA wrote:

Adaptec ATA RAID 2400A - this is what I call gorgeous - 4 ATA channels, dedicated CPU and memory and so extremely long 😀.

Yeah! What a beast! 😁

swaaye wrote:

I'm surprised that PCI IDE cards are as much trouble for you as they seem to be

I just got a PCI IDE controller to work in a G486VPA (486) board. It's a CMD controller, ultra 66 speed. I didn't have to do much "voodoo" in the BIOS - it just worked. 😀

Good to hear about your PCI IDE luck.

Solved! Following on from my O.P., I have now got a CF IDE device to work successfully on a 486. I did the following to get this to work - I replaced the "top of the range" Transcend 2GB 133x CF card, with a "bottom of the range" FujiFilm 128MB CF card. This card looks like older stock. Probably slower than the 133x Transcend card. Please note that I haven't replaced the CF IDE device (as described in the O.P.), all I've done is replace the CF card.

Now, the 486's BIOS auto detects the "HDD" OK, and I've successfully installed DOS 6.22 on to it.

I even got the CF IDE device to work on an ISA-based IO controller card, in a 486 mobo. Please note - it would only work if the mobo's BIOS had its "32-bit data transfer" field set to Disabled. Booting up time = about 1 second, for DOS 6.22.

PS - do you like my new jumpers? 😎

swaaye wrote:

another nice choice for these retro machines are notebook hdds. anything made in this decade is fast enough and they are so quiet, easily hidden, etc. cheap too. the IDE ones just need a cheap adapter so you can power them ...

I'm thinking of getting a notebook HDD mentioned in the main yellow table on this webpage (Silent PC Review website) -

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article29-page2.html

This purchase will be my first notebook HDD. I want to use it with a socket 7 Pentium 1 board. Regarding the cheap adapter you mention, would something like this be suitable -

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIt … _fvi%3D1&_rdc=1

Thanks! 😀

retro games 100 wrote:

Regarding the cheap adapter you mention, would something like this be suitable

Yes, I used one of these once, and it worked fine. Mine says HX-IDE-K but looks exactly the same otherwise.

Last week I tried a 1GB Transcend IDE flash module, code 'TS1GDOM40V-S'. It worked well as a Dos bootup drive on a 440BX mainboard. The power supply cable is just as big as the module itself. I read that one can do without this cable when a certain IDE pin supplies 5 Volt, but I am afraid this is not normally so.

Other then that I am not purchasing any new harddisk-like devices until the SLC solid state disks become affordable.

gerwin wrote:

Other then that I am not purchasing any new harddisk-like devices until the SLC solid state disks become affordable.

Good point. Incidentally, I found another 2.5 to 3.5 HDD adapter, here -

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=36945

The price is very high though. Also, I might get this notebook HDD -

http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/computing/ … /mhw2080at.html

, because SSDs are out of my price range ATM.