Uncreative Labs

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:05 pm

of course i mean relative, it's only a 386-sx

Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 589 Location: Shandong, China

You have to remember that because the memory cards you are using run on the ISA bus they're going to be farting along at 8MHz, acting as a bottleneck to the CPU. I highly doubt the 60ns DIPs will make any difference at all, because the 8MHz bus won't benefit from anything faster than 120ns RAMs.

1/frequency = period
->1/8x10^6 = 125ns (assuming 0 wait states)

Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 9:21 pm

Your right, forgot about that one, my may just pull the chips off it and slap them on my everex board, along side a bank of 80ns ones, and max out my XT onboard memory so i can get rid of that expansion board, or figure out how to get it to do ems, because i've got an old serial parallel clock calendar board...

Also do any of you know how to set up a CSC AK47 Vesa Fastcache
I'd love to get this working because i can have 4 floppies and scsi on the same board which would save slots for a test bed i'd like to build

Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 589 Location: Shandong, China

The drivers are still available on their website. Other than that, I have no idea. I sure would like one though...

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 4:31 am

Yep, got the drivers, and sent them an email, i may have to wait until monday for an answer, if i get one though, if not, it's play with the dip switch it's got until i figger it out, i'll let you guys know how it goes

Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 589 Location: Shandong, China

How many SIMM slots does it have?

Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 1:46 pm

It doesn't actually, it looks like it's either got 512kb or 1mb on it

Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 589 Location: Shandong, China

Oh, okay. I'm really looking for a caching SCSI controller with 30pin SIMM slots. Let me know if you ever see one and/or have some spares.

Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 3:37 am

sounds good, let me talk to my "associate" and see if i can come up with anything

Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 6:01 am

Greetings, I have a lead on a caching card, i don't know if it's ide of scsi, i'm going to look at it friday am, during my weekly "What oddities do you have this week" Search at RE-PC

Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 589 Location: Shandong, China

The caching SCSI VLB controllers are far less common than the IDE models. The odds are against me that it's IDE, but I do appreciate you checking for me.

Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 3:31 am

Talked to my buddies at both re-pc stores, they will look for me, for both the caching IDE and SCSI ones, they think they MAY have one or two layin around. I am also trying to find the RapidCAD Twins or a Cyrix 486 that fit into a 386 socket.

I also got an IBM 4869-002 External Floppy drive today. The guy said he had no idea what the plug was for so sold it to me for a dollar, cleaned it up, and it works nicely, 1.2mb AND 360 modes..