This is brilliant. I just got this card and am waiting for it to arrive; it's used and without any of the materials. Thanks for doing this!

firage wrote:

This is brilliant. I just got this card and am waiting for it to arrive; it's used and without any of the materials. Thanks for doing this!

No problem. 😀

Most of the images are double-paged, that is both left and right pages so it's actually half the images it otherwise would be.

Except for.. I think page 8 or 9. Right about in there they had a almost full page diagram of the card with jumper designations and locations and all of that. So I took advantage of it and scanned that one page in higher at 800 dpi @ 100%, then scaled it down about -60% for more detail and posted it on it's own bigger page so folks have a nice reference. Then the other page on the other side got it's own image. The rest are double-paged per jpeg.

EDIT: I exploded the rar file into a sub-folder for everyone to read and if you want just the reference image here's a link to that: http://www.outfoxed.net/4030_plus/EIDE-4030-P … ual/Page-08.jpg

Any chance you could dump the BIOS on the card? I have the "basic" 4030 model which does not support LBA, and it should work with a BIOS update:
VLB IDE cache controllers, benchmark

vetz wrote:

Any chance you could dump the BIOS on the card? I have the "basic" 4030 model which does not support LBA, and it should work with a BIOS update:
VLB IDE cache controllers, benchmark

I don't own a bios reader myself.. and honestly sort of scared to take the chips out of mine as I might damage em and then it wouldn't work. I don't think I can help much there. Sorry.

I have a friend of mine locally that has one.. I'll see if maybe I can get in touch with em.. not sure.

I don't know, the BIOS *might* be compatible since all the main IDE controller chips are the same. This isn't the same product as the old DC4030VL series, though. It integrates the old controller with super-I/O - serial, parallel, gameport, the FDC is different and there's a secondary IDE controller for tertiary IDE with ATAPI. (The EIDE branding is a sham, btw; all it stands for is LBA.)

I has sorta bad news. On two fronts. I can't find my driver diskettes and can't get ahold of my friend with the bios reader so.. guess the manual is all ya get from me on this thing. Sorry.

I found this thread when looking for information about a card I've had for quite a while.

I also happen to have a flash chip reader. Is there still interest in having a copy of the code?

Only two of my chips have stickers unlike the photo with three. Mine appear to be a newer version listed as R4.60 on the sticker.

You guessed correctly vetz I can't do PMs yet. The offer to dump the EEPROMS is still good.

I'll have to dig out the card and my reader.

PM me a place to upload them maybe? I know about the VOGONS libray, but I'm not sure this fits the spirit of it.

shifter775 wrote on 2020-04-07, 20:22:

You guessed correctly vetz I can't do PMs yet. The offer to dump the EEPROMS is still good.

I'll have to dig out the card and my reader.

PM me a place to upload them maybe? I know about the VOGONS libray, but I'm not sure this fits the spirit of it.

Excellent, thank you so much 😀

You could just zip the file(s) and attach them to your post.

On a side note I also gave it a shot to send a support request to Promise to see if they still have the original BIOS files. It's a longshot, but we'll see.

Took me a bit to get to this. Sorry about that. I was a bit bummed I had to remove a sticker to find the chip type.

I decided getting the data was more important than preserving the sticker.

I dumped the odd and even sides. I also merged the two after dumping to verify that data was read. I could clearly read ASCII data that makes me think both dumps were a success.

I'm not very versed in lots of chip types, but I think the third chip is probably not a PROM of any kind. If it is I don't think my reader supports it.

shifter775 wrote on 2020-05-14, 04:04:

I dumped the odd and even sides. I also merged the two after dumping to verify that data was read. I could clearly read ASCII data that makes me think both dumps were a success.

I'm not very versed in lots of chip types, but I think the third chip is probably not a PROM of any kind. If it is I don't think my reader supports it.

The third is also a PROM, and I'd very much like a dump of it. It's probably the same type as the other two, or a half-size of it. Reading from it is not dangerous, even if you get the chip model wrong in the reader config.

What kind of reader do you have?