What about if I cut two IDE cables and solder them together to make four connectors?
Sorry but I had to chuckle at this. I'm not a bad person honest.
You can run upto 4 devices but you will need to utilise both Primary and Secondary IDE channels.
The two storage drives on Primary and a cd rom on secondary is one possible configuration.
Its an old small form factor PC, the motherboard uses two of the IDE connectors of the IDE cable leaving just one connector for the Hard Drive. There is no CD Rom and no space to install one on this machine anyway. I plan to have the Hard drive as master and the CF drive as slave. I'm going to make a up a little board and solder two IDE connectors on to it that way I won't have to cut any IDE cables and will look much neater.
Or even better I can just use one of these to join the IDE cables.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/26435940...s=ispr=1&amdata=enc:1x7OTxHoyTHSGkPAM9zFLJQ13
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Caporegime
Sounds like you REALLY don’t understand IDE.
Get a picture of your board and cables as they are set up now. If your board has two IDE headers then that’s two channels (that both support a master and a slave device for 4 devices total), there should be two separate 40-pin IDE cables in these headers, definitely not one cable joining the two.
You don't understand what I'm talking about. I'm not an idiot. The motherboard IS NOT LIKE A STANDARD BOARD. This particular board uses two IDE connectors of the cable. Also the IDE cable is not standard either in the machine its just the one IDE connector on the cable that is plugged into the hard drive.
The IDE Cable is not standard
The board is not stranded.
This is why I need to join a standard IDE cable to the IDE cable in the machine.
Trying to explain this is a ***** nightmare. The board does not have two IDE headers like what you said and are not the same on your normal motherboard. The IDE headers on this one are totally different and work in a different way.
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Don
Take a photo because you are making no sense
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Or even just let us know the make/model of pc or motherboard
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Or even just let us know the make/model of pc or motherboard
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Caporegime
Clear as mud.
Just put up photos instead of trying to badly explain the problem, then one of us will likely be able to help before you break something.
Caporegime
I used to dabble a bit in upgrading older minis to later MacOS versions. Is Dosdude1 still the go-to resource, and did you end up having to upgrade the WiFi module?
Yup.. Dosdude1 up to Catalina and then OpenCoreLegacyPatcher for BigSur onwards... Clever people
Caporegime
Caporegime
Awaits to see an image of a SCSI header
This, this is what I'm expecting.
Thank you. It wasn't a shock as we knew it was coming, but still sad times. That said, the memories we are uncovering in the house have had us both elated and upset in equal measure. I've found a decent haul of ancient desktop and laptop peripherals that at present I've done nothing more than box into storage.
Caporegime
Received an Asus CUR-DLS dual S370 board in the post today. Was listed as "faulty" but I had a hunch what was wrong with it... it needs REGISTERED SDR PC133 RAM.
Bingo, working dual S370 board for £25, including two PIII 800MHz/256KB/133FSB CPUs.
I'm just going to change it's Fujitsu Siemens BIOS over to a stock ASUS one and then it can go back on the bay, I certainly don't need a third dual S370 board, let alone one without AGP, but I just wanted to sanity check for myself that this simply isn't true, and that PIII hasn't shot up in price (other than for rare/tualatin supporting boards).
Bingo, working dual S370 board for £25, including two PIII 800MHz/256KB/133FSB CPUs.
I'm just going to change it's Fujitsu Siemens BIOS over to a stock ASUS one and then it can go back on the bay, I certainly don't need a third dual S370 board, let alone one without AGP, but I just wanted to sanity check for myself that this simply isn't true, and that PIII hasn't shot up in price (other than for rare/tualatin supporting boards).
Soldato
My windows 98 PC is freezing up when trying to start in MS-DOS mode , Restarting and Shutting down from within windows 98. Could it be not happy with the Compact Flash Card install, would it be better on an actual IDE drive, theres plenty of new old stock on ebay for pennies.
Soldato
i added 3 hotfixes from this page, for fdisk and larger hard drives. one of them seems to have done the trick...
Older Microsoft patches, fixes, and utilities (Windows 9x/ME) - TACKtech Corp.
now trying to get the SB16 working in dos, ice tried the setblast utility and it works in window98 but when in DOS no sound
Older Microsoft patches, fixes, and utilities (Windows 9x/ME) - TACKtech Corp.
now trying to get the SB16 working in dos, ice tried the setblast utility and it works in window98 but when in DOS no sound
Soldato
Did you guys see the boxed AGP ATI 3850 go for £430 the other day. Madness!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BOXED-HI...2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BOXED-HI...2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0
Don
Absolutely bonkers - could maybe accept it if it was brand new and sealed
Associate
I cant believe someone is willing to pay that much for something which theyre probably going to put in a system and use a handful of times. Wish I had that much money just burning a hole in my pocket
Caporegime
Here's that dual socket 370 board that is now ready to go back up for sale:
