Re: Compaq FDD on parallel port - How to make it work?

Posted on Yesterday, 21:13

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by weedeewee

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I tried and no it does not work. Dangit, I was hoping it would work out of the box since I'm fairly certain on later model compaq m700 it actually does work, though I would have to check to be 100% certain. I guess a driver of some sort will be required for these older machines, although since the …

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Re: Replacement for Chaintech 5AGM2 bracket?

Posted on Yesterday, 20:29

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by weedeewee

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I see the adafruit ones have, as said, two pins. one could easily remove the pins from the plastic two pin holder and add some heatshrink sleeving or a wrap of insulating tape to each pin separately.

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Re: Compaq FDD on parallel port - How to make it work?

Posted on Yesterday, 20:26

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by weedeewee

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Does the drive not respond when attached and you try to do a DIR B: in dos ? I tried and no it does not work. Dangit, I was hoping it would work out of the box since I'm fairly certain on later model compaq m700 it actually does work, though I would have to check to be 100% certain. I guess a …

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Re: Compaq FDD on parallel port - How to make it work?

Posted on Yesterday, 16:28

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by weedeewee

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Does the drive not respond when attached and you try to do a DIR B: in dos ?

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Re: ST MK48Z02B-12 battery mod needed

Posted on 2024-05-12, 19:16

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by weedeewee

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I assume you saw this eevblog forum post ? https://www.eevblog.com/forum/microcontroller … 211/#msg2639211

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Re: ST MK48Z02B-12 battery mod needed

Posted on 2024-05-12, 17:00

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by weedeewee

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Similar modules also get used on EISA boards to retain the eisa board configurations . I'm fairly certain I saw a video a long time ago of 'marco reps' on youtube where he replaced a similar battery backed sram module with another module that didn't need a battery. Now if I only could remember …

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Re: PC104 suddenly not booting from Disk on Chip

Posted on 2024-05-10, 16:33

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by weedeewee

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no idea, i'm still stuck with the latest version of f-prot.

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Re: PC104 suddenly not booting from Disk on Chip

Posted on 2024-05-10, 15:16

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by weedeewee

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perhaps virus

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Re: PC104 suddenly not booting from Disk on Chip

Posted on 2024-05-10, 10:35

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by weedeewee

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fdisk /mbr tried u have ?

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Re: Windows 95 VMCPD.VXD blue screen freeze on boot when FPU installed. Any ideas?

Posted on 2024-05-09, 07:09

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by weedeewee

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I'm gonna mention it even though I guess you already tried Came across this https://www.oocities.org/~budallen/fatalexp.html mentions 13 (0Dh): General Protection Fault Any condition which is not covered by any of the other processor exceptions will result in a general protection fault. The …

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Re: Looking for new “portable” 4k LCD

Posted on 2024-05-08, 21:58

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I think mickeysoft said it best, 640x480 should be enough for everyone. that aside. i'd be doubtful about those cheap screen being actually '4k'. there might be a total of 4k R, G, B pixels on there, as in 3840x2160, but you'd have to divide it by three to get a real idea. So likely 1280x720 though …

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Re: At which point does pcie nvme become faster?

Posted on 2024-05-08, 16:36

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by weedeewee

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Do you mean you are asking at which hardware point, ie from which hardware specs on is an nvme drive faster ? I've had an nvme drive attached to a thunderbolt3 controller connected to an X58 mainboard attain 2Megabyte/s in linux. was even hot swappable. Pretty sure it's also possible in windows if …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-05-08, 10:01

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Today I grabbed two things. First was a cute little Blue Lightning. IMG_3394.jpg I don't really have a place to put it yet, but I'm sure it'll find its way in to something at some point. The more interesting find was the PPro board, complete with a 200/256k processor. I'll probably throw it in to …

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Re: Announcing a new (Ultra-2) SCSI emulator. Help me define some features!

Posted on 2024-05-08, 06:34

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I wonder now what would be required to make it work in an old AS/400 system which uses 12 UW-SCSI hard drives, scsi tape drive & scsi cdrom. I have no idea if the system can boot with generic drives, nor do i have cdrom or tape to re-install the software. figuring that out might be a hassle.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-05-07, 18:50

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danieljm wrote on 2024-05-07, 18:31: And also I think I'm supposed to watch out for exploding tantalums, so that's got me a little worried too. 😁 The Tantalums won't explode until you apply power to them and then they either work or not. Sometimes with a bang and smoke, sometimes just smoke, no …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-05-07, 14:59

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Well it's hardware for retro hardware. A proper diagnostics card. Needless to say, more chips = better. 😉 DSC_8937.JPG The cheapest card (top) works fine in a PCI slot, but in an ISA slot, not so much. I can't recall how many times I've shown & said it nor if I already told you, so here it goes …

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Re: Western Digital WD10TMVV hard disk, interface type ?

Posted on 2024-05-07, 03:28

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by weedeewee

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Yeah, I searched for over an hour myself. I have several adapters for 2.5 disks, but not for this one ! Welcome to the confused discussion !! I'm not confused by the fact that it's a USB C connector, I just looked at your photo and the google results. After looking at some more photos it's clear …

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Re: Western Digital WD10TMVV hard disk, interface type ?

Posted on 2024-05-06, 21:18

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by weedeewee

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looks like SAS edit, oh wait, googled it.. it's USB ?!

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Re: Announcing a new (Ultra-2) SCSI emulator. Help me define some features!

Posted on 2024-05-06, 21:16

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How will you produce / release it?

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Re: Announcing a new (Ultra-2) SCSI emulator. Help me define some features!

Posted on 2024-05-06, 19:19

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Well, your project sounds really cool. I forgot about tape drives and ls120. If you have removable drive support even floppy drives would be possible. I was thinking maybe even a bluray drive would be possible but, were there any bluray scsi drives made and the drm features would likely be a …

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