Already have a Voodoo2 SLI on my P3 Retro Beast but I couldn't resist to get another one... 160$ for a 12MB one. Carefully inspected it before testing it, I found 2 bent legs on one of the 2 mains 3dfx chips ( common when not treated as they deserve 😭). Easily fixed and tested on my P233mmx Rig under Quake2. Working like a charm 😍

Now back in safety in my geek cupboard for the next years 😇

This Promise SuperTRAK SX6000 controller for connecting 12 IDE devices to a PCI Bus found for ~15 USD on local ad service.

https://www.promise.com/media_bank/Download%2 … 0_Manual_r1.pdf
Here goes the RAID on 12 CF cards! ;D

AppleSauce wrote on 2022-02-03, 13:49:

I agree , I felt stupid for buying a voodoo 2 for 120 aud then another for 140 aud to get a sli setup going back in 2020 but looking at the prices now it doesn't seem so bad. I mean people pay stupid amounts for knowingly broken ones now , it's mental.

I paid €70 for a broken Voodoo3 3000 - I fixed it with a firmware flash so perhaps many believe a card isn't truely dead and they can resurrect it?

HanJammer wrote on 2022-02-03, 15:02:

This Promise SuperTRAK SX6000 controller for connecting 12 IDE devices to a PCI Bus found for ~15 USD on local ad service.

https://www.promise.com/media_bank/Download%2 … 0_Manual_r1.pdf
Here goes the RAID on 12 CF cards! ;D

Now I need one ...120AUD ...I guess its ok for this much fun.

HanJammer wrote on 2022-02-03, 15:02:

This Promise SuperTRAK SX6000 controller for connecting 12 IDE devices to a PCI Bus found for ~15 USD on local ad service.

https://www.promise.com/media_bank/Download%2 … 0_Manual_r1.pdf
Here goes the RAID on 12 CF cards! ;D

Ooorrr 12 Quantum Bigfoots. Please!🤩

Doornkaat wrote on 2022-02-03, 15:39:

HanJammer wrote on 2022-02-03, 15:02:

This Promise SuperTRAK SX6000 controller for connecting 12 IDE devices to a PCI Bus found for ~15 USD on local ad service.

https://www.promise.com/media_bank/Download%2 … 0_Manual_r1.pdf
Here goes the RAID on 12 CF cards! ;D

Ooorrr 12 Quantum Bigfoots. Please!🤩

Uhh thats a bold assumption there .. that there are still 12 bigfoots functional.

TrashPanda wrote on 2022-02-03, 15:43:

Doornkaat wrote on 2022-02-03, 15:39:

HanJammer wrote on 2022-02-03, 15:02:

This Promise SuperTRAK SX6000 controller for connecting 12 IDE devices to a PCI Bus found for ~15 USD on local ad service.

https://www.promise.com/media_bank/Download%2 … 0_Manual_r1.pdf
Here goes the RAID on 12 CF cards! ;D

Ooorrr 12 Quantum Bigfoots. Please!🤩

Uhh thats a bold assumption there .. that there are still 12 bigfoots functional.

😄Sad but true!

Doornkaat wrote on 2022-02-03, 15:44:

TrashPanda wrote on 2022-02-03, 15:43:

Doornkaat wrote on 2022-02-03, 15:39:

Ooorrr 12 Quantum Bigfoots. Please!🤩

Uhh thats a bold assumption there .. that there are still 12 bigfoots functional.

😄Sad but true!

Imagine the racket tho ...just hearing it spin up would be amazing.

TrashPanda wrote on 2022-02-03, 15:49:

Imagine the racket tho ...just hearing it spin up would be amazing.

That's what I'm talking about. They have such a distinct sound. Imagine a rebuild of a RAID5 on 12 Bigfoots. 😄

Doornkaat wrote on 2022-02-03, 15:55:

TrashPanda wrote on 2022-02-03, 15:49:

Imagine the racket tho ...just hearing it spin up would be amazing.

That's what I'm talking about. They have such a distinct sound. Imagine a rebuild of a RAID5 on 12 Bigfoots. 😄

hehe I like the way you think !

Imagine a full defrag of all drives at once.

Am I wrong to also be imagining the sound of 12 52x speed CD drives spinning up? Or I see that Kenwood had a 72x speed drive. There's got to be reasonable odds with that many discs that one will let go. Could spin them up one at a time, each time getting a bit more wooshier. Then just when you think it can't get any more wooshier, it does. It goes up to 12.

TrashPanda wrote on 2022-02-03, 15:43:

Doornkaat wrote on 2022-02-03, 15:39:

HanJammer wrote on 2022-02-03, 15:02:

This Promise SuperTRAK SX6000 controller for connecting 12 IDE devices to a PCI Bus found for ~15 USD on local ad service.

https://www.promise.com/media_bank/Download%2 … 0_Manual_r1.pdf
Here goes the RAID on 12 CF cards! ;D

Ooorrr 12 Quantum Bigfoots. Please!🤩

Uhh thats a bold assumption there .. that there are still 12 bigfoots functional.

I already have 2 😁

So 10 more to go 😉

And a case with 12 5.25" bays...

And a call to a local seismographic station so they won't mistake this rig being turned on for a natural seismic event.

snufkin wrote on 2022-02-03, 16:10:

Am I wrong to also be imagining the sound of 12 52x speed CD drives spinning up? Or I see that Kenwood had a 72x speed drive. There's got to be reasonable odds with that many discs that one will let go. Could spin them up one at a time, each time getting a bit more wooshier. Then just when you think it can't get any more wooshier, it does. It goes up to 12.

If I remember correctly 72x Kenwood drive actually spun slower than 52x drives and higher speed was achieved otherwise (I vaguely remember LGR explained it in one of his videos).

red_avatar wrote on 2022-02-03, 15:10:

AppleSauce wrote on 2022-02-03, 13:49:

I agree , I felt stupid for buying a voodoo 2 for 120 aud then another for 140 aud to get a sli setup going back in 2020 but looking at the prices now it doesn't seem so bad. I mean people pay stupid amounts for knowingly broken ones now , it's mental.

I paid €70 for a broken Voodoo3 3000 - I fixed it with a firmware flash so perhaps many believe a card isn't truely dead and they can resurrect it?

I mean its your money and you can do with it as you please , if you feel like buying a voodoo to repair there's nothing wrong with that.

But it just shows the state of the market at the moment ,where in order to get a good deal you have to gamble by repairing a card that may or may not be fixable.

And how far will it go , will you eventually have to pay 200 to fix a voodoo? The alternative being paying 400 for a confirmed working one , where does it end?

HanJammer wrote on 2022-02-03, 16:13:

I already have 2 :D […]
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TrashPanda wrote on 2022-02-03, 15:43:

Doornkaat wrote on 2022-02-03, 15:39:

Ooorrr 12 Quantum Bigfoots. Please!🤩

Uhh thats a bold assumption there .. that there are still 12 bigfoots functional.

I already have 2 😁

So 10 more to go 😉

And a case with 12 5.25" bays...

And a call to a local seismographic station so they won't mistake this rig being turned on for a natural seismic event.

The Antec Twelve Hundred or might aid you in your quest of scaring the hell out of some unsuspecting seismologist. 😄

HanJammer wrote on 2022-02-03, 16:13:

I already have 2 :D […]
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TrashPanda wrote on 2022-02-03, 15:43:

Doornkaat wrote on 2022-02-03, 15:39:

Ooorrr 12 Quantum Bigfoots. Please!🤩

Uhh thats a bold assumption there .. that there are still 12 bigfoots functional.

I already have 2 😁

So 10 more to go 😉

And a case with 12 5.25" bays...

And a call to a local seismographic station so they won't mistake this rig being turned on for a natural seismic event.

snufkin wrote on 2022-02-03, 16:10:

Am I wrong to also be imagining the sound of 12 52x speed CD drives spinning up? Or I see that Kenwood had a 72x speed drive. There's got to be reasonable odds with that many discs that one will let go. Could spin them up one at a time, each time getting a bit more wooshier. Then just when you think it can't get any more wooshier, it does. It goes up to 12.

If I remember correctly 72x Kenwood drive actually spun slower than 52x drives and higher speed was achieved otherwise (I vaguely remember LGR explained it in one of his videos).

Imagine the PSU require to power the rig up .. might need two or a backplane that can provide enough Molex connectors 😁

My 129 MB HDD for my IBM PS/1 Imagination System computer came in last night. Hyped to get it installed and install windows and dos. Though I watched a video of someone else with this computer and apparently this system had a custome windows just for this sytem. So im now going to hunt that down instead of installing the windows 3.1 i have.

ALso, I was going to put in a 5.25 inch drive , but this also came with a cd rom. so i might keep the cd rom...

The other thing is that apparently this computer can be upgraded to 32 megs of ram and to a DX 66 .

Anyway here is the drive

Wild things to do with 12 drive array...

Pull your RAM down to minimum to boot because swap is faster.

Use in 486 PCI board with 486 SX clocked to 50mhz and an FPU emulator implemented in lookup tables.... get 30 FPS in Quake.

Have redundantly redundant redundancy that matches your level of data paranoia

Use LS120 drives and play quake off floppy.

TrashPanda wrote on 2022-02-03, 16:18:

HanJammer wrote on 2022-02-03, 16:13:

I already have 2 :D […]
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TrashPanda wrote on 2022-02-03, 15:43:

Uhh thats a bold assumption there .. that there are still 12 bigfoots functional.

I already have 2 😁

So 10 more to go 😉

And a case with 12 5.25" bays...

And a call to a local seismographic station so they won't mistake this rig being turned on for a natural seismic event.

snufkin wrote on 2022-02-03, 16:10:

Am I wrong to also be imagining the sound of 12 52x speed CD drives spinning up? Or I see that Kenwood had a 72x speed drive. There's got to be reasonable odds with that many discs that one will let go. Could spin them up one at a time, each time getting a bit more wooshier. Then just when you think it can't get any more wooshier, it does. It goes up to 12.

If I remember correctly 72x Kenwood drive actually spun slower than 52x drives and higher speed was achieved otherwise (I vaguely remember LGR explained it in one of his videos).

Imagine the PSU require to power the rig up .. might need two or a backplane that can provide enough Molex connectors 😁

"Quantum Bigfoot RAIDiculous® Edition comes with automotive lead acid battery to support system during startup."
-from the owners' manual

Doornkaat wrote on 2022-02-03, 16:31:

TrashPanda wrote on 2022-02-03, 16:18:

HanJammer wrote on 2022-02-03, 16:13:

I already have 2 :D […]
Show full quote

I already have 2 😁

So 10 more to go 😉

And a case with 12 5.25" bays...

And a call to a local seismographic station so they won't mistake this rig being turned on for a natural seismic event.

If I remember correctly 72x Kenwood drive actually spun slower than 52x drives and higher speed was achieved otherwise (I vaguely remember LGR explained it in one of his videos).

Imagine the PSU require to power the rig up .. might need two or a backplane that can provide enough Molex connectors 😁

"Quantum Bigfoot RAIDiculous® Edition comes with automotive lead acid battery to support system during startup."
-from the owners' manual

How many cold crank hours ya got on that battery ?

"Hope no one gets offended by "Soviet Bloc" not sure where to place all the countries from that area of the world since some of them are not EU members." - no, that's ok. Post-Soviet countries, that's what we are.

Comparing prices I see we still have lot of stuff that is cheaper. Or better to say WAS 😀 Seems like this source has dried up.