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First post, by 7cjbill2

Posted on 2011-11-08, 04:44

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Just obtained in my latest scrounging effort:

Promise VLB IDE caching controller
Fujitsu 1.7GB IDE HDD
Optical serial mouse w/ transflective mousepad!

These will be going into my 486. I'm not happy unless I'm reconfiguring. When it's all running right I don't care anymore. I'll get to dump my SCSI card, SCSI HDD, bus mouse, and ATAPI controller! Good opportunity to test my Iomega Ditto BU. Woo-hoo!

Will pay $$$ for:

caching ISA I/O-IDE controller

PM me for my list of trade-ables...

Reply 1 of 6, by luckybob

Posted on 2011-11-08, 04:50

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this thread is worthless without pictures.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Reply 2 of 6, by Stull

Posted on 2011-11-08, 14:19

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Yeah man, give us some eye candy. Show us some sweet beige cases and exposed bare parts..

(Also, not to be a backseat mod, but Bought these (retro) hardware today)

Reply 3 of 6, by 7cjbill2

Posted on 2011-11-14, 00:05

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Pics taken (finally).

Promise EIDE4030VL w/ 16MB cache RAM

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Not new, but my SB16 CT1740 w/ NEC XR385 GMIDI daughterboard

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Generic VESA 10-BaseT/2 NIC

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Optical serial digital 3-button mouse w/ contrast pad

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Not sure I will use the NIC, that would be 3 VLB cards on my board at 40MHz, not sure. Definitely use the other parts, though!

Will pay $$$ for:

caching ISA I/O-IDE controller

PM me for my list of trade-ables...

Reply 4 of 6, by feipoa

Posted on 2011-11-28, 06:24

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I'm curious about that IDE caching controller, EIDE4030VL. I've never used one before.

How much HD boost do you notice when using 16 MB of HD controller cache? Is this for using harddrives that don't have built-in cache? Seems like all the SCSI drives I use have at around 8-32 MB of cache built-in.

Plan your life wisely, you'll be dead before you know it.

Reply 5 of 6, by Markk

Posted on 2011-11-28, 08:58

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I remember some computer tests back in 1992-93, when those having a cached controller where almost twice as fast as the best of those having a "simple" controller, in disk speed.

Reply 6 of 6, by 7cjbill2

Posted on 2011-11-28, 14:45

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I haven't gotten it installed yet. I found an older WDE 2GB SCSI-3 drive, with on-board 1MB cache and on my BusLogic VLB controller it's pretty darn skippy. May have to wait on the caching controller for now. On the box it says "0.1ms access time and up to 20MB/sec data transfer rate" if you can believe it.

Will pay $$$ for:

caching ISA I/O-IDE controller

PM me for my list of trade-ables...

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