First post, by 19rsn007
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hello people,
I was given this card, but I can not find anything about it.
I know it's a VLB card, but what is the 68k doing on there?
Reply 1 of 10, by appiah4
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That looks like a 68k SBC meant for a backplane not a VLB expansion card for a computer IMO.
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Reply 2 of 10, by JidaiGeki
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Acard Artop Electronics ATP-8400A IDE / VLB CACHE Controller (just searched on the label AEC3240)
Plus it looks like it's got IO onboard. Should be handy.
Reply 3 of 10, by Cyberdyne
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68k is just a capable and effective Cache controller there.
I am aroused about any X86 motherboard that has full functional ISA slot. I think i have problem. Not really into that original (Turbo) XT,286,386 and CGA/EGA stuff. So just a DOS nut.
PS. If I upload RAR, it is a 16-bit DOS RAR Version 2.50.
Reply 4 of 10, by 19rsn007
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wrote:Acard Artop Electronics ATP-8400A IDE / VLB CACHE Controller (just searched on the label AEC3240)
Plus it looks like it's got IO onboard. Should be handy.
Do you have any info about it?
Does it require drivers or software of some sort?
I have made some close-up shots of the IC's on there.
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Reply 5 of 10, by Cyberdyne
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It does not need extra drivers in DOS and you can even use it with Windows 9x, without drivers.
It has its own BIOS. And computer and DOS sees it a just a normal drive controller.
Usually only your original MB BIOS has to be configured with first drive active, but with all zeroes.
And you have to run the cards bios, to detect and use IDE drives.
I am aroused about any X86 motherboard that has full functional ISA slot. I think i have problem. Not really into that original (Turbo) XT,286,386 and CGA/EGA stuff. So just a DOS nut.
PS. If I upload RAR, it is a 16-bit DOS RAR Version 2.50.
Reply 6 of 10, by 19rsn007
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Wow you seem to know more about this 😁
I'll PM you so we can talk about this some more.
Reply 7 of 10, by JidaiGeki
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wrote:Do you have any info about it? Does it require drivers or software of some sort? […]
wrote:Acard Artop Electronics ATP-8400A IDE / VLB CACHE Controller (just searched on the label AEC3240)
Plus it looks like it's got IO onboard. Should be handy.Do you have any info about it?
Does it require drivers or software of some sort?I have made some close-up shots of the IC's on there.
Sorry I don't have more information, but it looks like NT and OS/2 drivers can be found on driverguide.com if you want to try those operating systems with it.
Cyberdyne does seem to be familiar with this card though! 😀
Reply 8 of 10, by ElBrunzy
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Sometime those cards dont support large disk. I dont know about the specs of that one. I once struggle with one of those because of that, I just hope to save you some time if you ever decide to use it.
Reply 9 of 10, by 19rsn007
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Thanks for the help!
Well.....I don't have a system to use it in right now (no VLB slots over here)
Reply 10 of 10, by firage
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These things are most at home in a 386/486 that uses HDD's from the 90's. Capacity limitations are one side of it, but they also lack support for the faster drive interface standards that came with EIDE c. 1995 onwards. Anything that already saturates the pipe (8MB/s at the very max, probably half that) will only be bottlenecked.
That said, caching disk controllers are pretty rad.