A nice controller. Didn't know they were making SCSI/EIDE combos

Installed the Ark Logic card in my alaris cougar it's working with zero wait state. Joy 😀

mpe wrote:

A nice controller. Didn't know they were making SCSI/EIDE combos

Ye and it PIO mode 4 AND supports 8gb

Now THAT'S a controller card. Where'd you find that card? I would buy one in a heartbeat myself. I have an Adaptec CardPark PCMCIA controller card with the front drive bay adapter that supports PCMCIA Ethernet, modems, and other cards, including the flash memory cards (can be doubled as a mass storage device) and I bought it NIB at a thrift store a couple of years ago, which'll be installed in my Packard Bell soon or in another system.

Warlord wrote:

Another Impressive card.

ARK1000? Impressive?
Can't see anything interesting about that chipset, just yet another dumb framebuffer.
And in the VLB era, there was plenty of cards with Cirrus Logic 5426/5428/5429 chips, ie. accelerated.

Warlord wrote:

Installed the Ark Logic card in my alaris cougar it's working with zero wait state. Joy 😀

mpe wrote:

A nice controller. Didn't know they were making SCSI/EIDE combos

Ye and it PIO mode 4 AND supports 8gb

Very nice controller indeed, it's my favorite (and fastest controller I've tested) in my 486 VLB build

vetz wrote:

Very nice controller indeed, it's my favorite (and fastest controller I've tested) in my 486 VLB build

Please share benchmark results. I'd be very interested!

after not having luck with any of the scrap boxes full of motherboards and cpus I decided to just order one after all 😁

what fancy packaging...

I wanted a SCSI CD-ROM.

Picked up this one. Advertised as CD-ROM for Amiga.No brand/model markings anywhere apart from it was made in 1994.

I liked the unconventional front panel design.

Connected to SCSI bus it reports as "Sanyo CRD-400I". Couldn't find much info but it appears to be a double-speed SCSI drive after testing it.

Reads like every second disk.I forgot how fiddly these early CD-ROM drives were!

ooooo this is one where the whole drive mechanism is in the tray right?
I love it.

I think I was watching one of these on ebay, but it was way too expensive.

Grzyb wrote:

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Warlord wrote:

Another Impressive card.

ARK1000? Impressive?
Can't see anything interesting about that chipset, just yet another dumb framebuffer.
And in the VLB era, there was plenty of cards with Cirrus Logic 5426/5428/5429 chips, ie. accelerated.

What? That's one of the faster chipsets for DOS gaming of that era and it looks to be NOS in box with drivers - I was impressed. Thanks for sharing OP.

DOS compatibility is also top notch.

mpe wrote:

I wanted a SCSI CD-ROM.

Picked up this one. Advertised as CD-ROM for Amiga.No brand/model markings anywhere apart from it was made in 1994.

Very interesting. Seems like I own an earlier version of that drive. Mine is from Dec. 1993 and branded "Media Vision". Unlike yours, there's no volume control and headphone jack on mine.

stop making me all jealous 😁

on another note... so who else from here got one of these?
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/5rcAAOSw2VZdp1bA/s-l1600.jpg

they popped up yesterday and all 5 of them were gone pretty fast ^^

imi wrote:

stop making me all jealous 😁

No. 😜

How you like this one:

First consumer CD Recorder sold for under $1000 ($999 that is). I really love its colors.

derSammler wrote:

Very interesting. Seems like I own an earlier version of that drive. Mine is from Dec. 1993 and branded "Media Vision". Unlike yours, there's no volume control and headphone jack on mine.

Yours is probably a single-speed then.

Looks like these were made by Sanyo for OEMs. Media Vision was bundling them with their Pro Audio Spectrum cards to make "Media Vision Multimedia Kit" upgrade kit.

If you are not sure how to install it, this could help: 😀

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SwBBl2K2R0

Nice to know. I have that Media Vision PAS with SCSI, so I guess I should test them together and keep them bundled. 😀

you're killing me 😁

derSammler wrote:

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First consumer CD Recorder sold for under $1000 ($999 that is). I really love its colors.

Yes, a friend of mine bought his for roughly $800 back then and unfortunately those early drives spit out a lot of drink coasters. Probably had more to do with early media (which was also very expensive), but frustrating just the same.

Ordered a Dell Slot 1 motherboard to restore my Dell Dimension XPS T500 to glory (case was empty, the original parts are long gone).

Instead I got this... seller sent the wrong item. To be fair, they're both Dell motherboards with E139761 written on them but I wanted the Slot 1 one. I have no Socket 7 stuff lying around anyways. Seller said he'll check to see if he has the proper board.

Is that an AN430TX? Seems to have a Vibra 16C and the spot for the integrated GPU seems to be vacant. It probably would have been an integrated ATI Rage II + DVD, or something similar.