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Reply 20 of 22, by pshipkov

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Hey, thanks.

This actually reminds me that i never updated the charts and original post with Appian ADI2 + driver.
Did it now (you will probably need to hard-reload for local cache invalidation).

It turns out that ADI2 is a great EIDE chip.
As noted in the original post - it works well with CF cards, but a bit flaky with mechanical HDDs.
The reason for that - I am testing on a highly (most) optimized VLB system and that seems to be a bit too much for it.
If i relax system timings - all is good, but at the cost of lowered performance.

retro bits and bytes

Reply 21 of 22, by Robin4

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I have got the DTC EDPT 32GB extension bios already running on this config:

Pentium 90Mhz classic
FiC PA-2002 motherboard
16MB EDO 60NS (got two sticks (one seems to be dead) (going to upgrade it to 48MB
15GB WD caviar 153aa
VGA Mentor Tseng Labs ET4000 / W32P 2MB PCI
UNKOWN RTL8019 Ethernet NIC 10Mbit ISA with DTC EDTP 2.2a bios ( running 16K part) Limit 32GB.
Going running windows 95 on it.. Perhaps with split Dos mode..(so windows 95 doesnt boot straight to GUI) but ending in dos prompt)

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