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Holtek 6560 vlb ide controller

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First post, by balthazor4ever

Posted on 2020-03-07, 10:54

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I hope I write in the right section. I bought this controller from ebay. I read somewhere that in order to have better speeds you need a driver to enable the features of the controller. The thing is by searching I found datasheets of the chips on the controller but I haven't found any driver for DOS or Windows 3.11. Can anyone help me?

Reply 1 of 12, by digistorm

Posted on 2020-03-07, 16:00

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Is it this card?

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I have a driver disk for this card that came with my 486. I could send you a disk image, or I could upload it to this forum if that's possible.

Reply 2 of 12, by Horun

Posted on 2020-03-07, 16:20

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I have about the same VLB card but by QDI. Bunch of drivers here: http://files.mpoli.fi/hardware/HDD/OTHER/

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Reply 3 of 12, by balthazor4ever

Posted on 2020-03-07, 21:00

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digistorm wrote on 2020-03-07, 16:00:

Is it this card?

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I have a driver disk for this card that came with my 486. I could send you a disk image, or I could upload it to this forum if that's possible.

I would appreciate that. How could we do this?

Reply 4 of 12, by Horun

Posted on 2020-03-07, 21:52

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balthazor4ever wrote on 2020-03-07, 21:00:

digistorm wrote on 2020-03-07, 16:00:

Is it this card?

IMG_0079.jpg

I have a driver disk for this card that came with my 486. I could send you a disk image, or I could upload it to this forum if that's possible.

I would appreciate that. How could we do this?

digistorm: If it is less than 2Mb (zipped) you can attach it to a reply here in this thread.

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Reply 5 of 12, by digistorm

Posted on 2020-03-07, 22:29

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I put them in a zip file, then they don't take up that much space. There is also a paper manual with it, I don't have a scan at the moment, but if you need it I can scan it tomorrow.

Reply 6 of 12, by Horun

Posted on 2020-03-08, 01:17

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digistorm wrote on 2020-03-07, 22:29:

I put them in a zip file, then they don't take up that much space. There is also a paper manual with it, I don't have a scan at the moment, but if you need it I can scan it tomorrow.

Great ! Thank you. Am saving it to my driver library 😁

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Reply 7 of 12, by Robin4

Posted on 2020-03-08, 01:37

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Me too, there is always a backup from my side. Thanks for sharing. I put all the collected files on my NAS. Because google is drying up on information and drivers.

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Reply 8 of 12, by balthazor4ever

Posted on 2020-03-08, 03:50

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Thank you so much!!!!

Reply 9 of 12, by balthazor4ever

Posted on 2020-03-08, 03:52

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I don't have any manual. If you find the time to scan it I would be most thankful!

Reply 10 of 12, by digistorm

Posted on 2020-03-08, 22:54

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Here is the manual. It's a folded piece of paper, so the scan may look a bit weird, but I think you'll figure it out 😊

Reply 11 of 12, by balthazor4ever

Posted on 2020-03-09, 07:46

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Great! Thank you very much!

Reply 12 of 12, by douglar

Posted on 2023-06-22, 20:22

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Unfortunately, I can't get that driver to work with a card that uses the "6560A" chip. Says the card is not a "6560B". Anyone have a driver for the 6560A?

Frustratingly, I see drivers here: https://storagedrivers.com/companies//461.htm

That sight list of the contents of potentially newer driver disks for "6560A" and "6560B", but the downloads only take me to outbyte-driver-updater.exe, which doesn't seem safe.

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