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First post, by LunarG

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On what seemed to be any normal Monday, I stopped by the local electronics shop and asked if they would mind me rummaging a bit in their large container of "stuff people wanna throw away" old electronics.
They didn't mind as usual (I've asked before), and as usual I didn't expect to find anything worthwhile.
Well, today I ended up with a cardboard box full of old IDE HDD's, a Seagate Cheetah 10K.7 73GB Ultra 320 SCSI drive (I don't have a host adapter to test it with), a Creative 24x CD-ROM drive (apparently dead), a floppy drive and an old motherboard-bag full of 72pin simm modules. The simms all look unharmed, but I won't test them in my 486, as I worry too much about damaging it. I'll test then when I set up my AOpen AX59Pro based SS7 system though.
There appears to be 10 matched sets of 2 and 4 random sticks of RAM. A few are marked with OEM stickers, like a pair of Compaq ones.
Hopefully some of these bits will be functional and come in useful at some point.

Does anyone know of a PCI Ultra 320 SCSI host adapter (Don't have a motherboard with PCI-X), or will I have to try to get hold of a cheap PCIe one to put in my main system?
Would be awesome to run this Seagate Cheetah in my P3 system 😁

WinXP : PIII 1.4GHz, 512MB RAM, 73GB SCSI HDD, Matrox Parhelia, SB Audigy 2.
Win98se : K6-3+ 500MHz, 256MB RAM, 80GB HDD, Matrox Millennium G400 MAX, Voodoo 2, SW1000XG.
DOS6.22 : Intel DX4, 64MB RAM, 1.6GB HDD, Diamond Stealth64 DRAM, GUS 1MB, SB16.

Reply 1 of 6, by Logistics

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I don't think you can reach ultra 320 speed on regular PCI since it's 66MHz maximum while the PCI-X adapter I have is of course 133MHz.

Reply 2 of 6, by nforce4max

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Not bad and better than what I usually get but lately have gotten a lot of cool goodies anyway first place to start looking for a cheap controller is eBay. Amazon has some hidden things at decent prices.

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Reply 3 of 6, by LunarG

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Yeah, I kinda figured.
I would've liked to see if the drive works, as it's a very nice HDD if it does. PCI express Ultra320 adapters are quite expensive though, and I can't afford to spend that kind of money at the moment.
Oh well, perhaps in the future.

Just done some testing of the IDE drives I found and here are the results:

Quantum Fireball ST 1.6GB - OK
Western Digital Caviar 2635 640MB - OK
Western Digital Caviar 21200 1282MB - OK
Western Digital Caviar 21600 1624MB - OK
Samsung PLS-31274A 1.27GB - OK
Fujitsu MPB3032AT 3.2GB - Shows up as 1.97GB in Windows XP on Compaq Deskpro EN Pentium III, not detected by BIOS on 486.
Seagate ST3144A 130MB - Busted... Makes "Oh dear" noises as soon as system boots. 😜

Floppy drive appears to be faulty. CD-ROM is definitely faulty as well.
The Quantum Fireball might be suited for the super socket 7 build I'm working on. Not sure if I think it's big enough though.

If anyone is in need of an old IDE drive (most are UDMA33 I'd say), it's always possible to PM me. I might be willing to donate some of these drives as I don't really have much use for them.

WinXP : PIII 1.4GHz, 512MB RAM, 73GB SCSI HDD, Matrox Parhelia, SB Audigy 2.
Win98se : K6-3+ 500MHz, 256MB RAM, 80GB HDD, Matrox Millennium G400 MAX, Voodoo 2, SW1000XG.
DOS6.22 : Intel DX4, 64MB RAM, 1.6GB HDD, Diamond Stealth64 DRAM, GUS 1MB, SB16.

Reply 4 of 6, by Logistics

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Cant you just use an ultra 160 adapter? Pretty sure they interchange, but obviously it's a bottleneck.

Reply 5 of 6, by LunarG

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Sure, if that would work, I'd be happy to use a slower host adapter. Would still need to buy one of course 😁 I don't have anything even vaguely scsi'ish in any of my systems at the moment.

WinXP : PIII 1.4GHz, 512MB RAM, 73GB SCSI HDD, Matrox Parhelia, SB Audigy 2.
Win98se : K6-3+ 500MHz, 256MB RAM, 80GB HDD, Matrox Millennium G400 MAX, Voodoo 2, SW1000XG.
DOS6.22 : Intel DX4, 64MB RAM, 1.6GB HDD, Diamond Stealth64 DRAM, GUS 1MB, SB16.

Reply 6 of 6, by nforce4max

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Well scsi normally isn't cheap but do some google searches but I can tell you that the one thing that will sting is the cables. Crazy expensive they are along with the terminators.

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