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a new AT&T 486SX computer that I may have toasted..... :(

It appears to be working with a 500mb partition on the wdc 1.2gb drive, and thats all I can do. I'll probably try and get the ddo working next wednesday or so, but I'm pretty much going offline till then. Yay family camp :p

later and thanks for the help so far.
 
Chuck(G) said:
If you want to use that 15GB drive with your current motherboard, you'll need a DDO.
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Close, but no cigar. If you had said, ‘If you want to use *all* of that 15GB drive with your current motherboard, you'll need a DDO’, I would have agreed. As it stands, he can use ‘all but 14.5GB’ without a DDO. :)
 
Tr3vor said:
It appears to be working with a 500mb partition on the wdc 1.2gb drive, and thats all I can do. I'll probably try and get the ddo working next wednesday or so, but I'm pretty much going offline till then. Yay family camp :p

later and thanks for the help so far.
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Awesome :) enjoy your new beast.
 
Stone said:
Close, but no cigar. If you had said, ‘If you want to use *all* of that 15GB drive with your current motherboard, you'll need a DDO’, I would have agreed. As it stands, he can use ‘all but 14.5GB’ without a DDO. :)
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Picky, picky--I'm sure I can whip up a Windows driver for that 3TB SATA drive that will reduce its capacity to 500MB as well. :)
 
yay, got some time after the nightshift and when I leave :p. I intend to replace that dinky cd rom drive with a 5.25 inch floppy drive. I found a bunch of disks at a thrift store $.25 for all of them, and I wanna mess around with those. That cd rom drive isn't even IDE, I have no idea what it is. I'm guessing it came with a sound card back in the day? it doesn't use a motor to eject the tray all the way out, and back in, it acts more like a laptop drive. it just clicks out, you pull it open, and push it shut.
 
also anyone remember my thread about this WDC and how it clicked during the seek test? it only does that in my pentium 200 mmx machine, not in the 486...
 
Rotate the donut and reflect light off the surface of those disks and make sure the disks aren't shedding. Often when I receive second hand 5.25" floppies they're covered in it and clog the drives real fast (turning them in to disk eaters)

I remember your WDC thread however don't really have a theory other than possibly it's getting picky about it's voltages? I had a Quantum drive that would tick when I had it in a PSU that wasn't quite doing full 12V. Just a theory, not sure, glad it seems ok now though.

There were standards for those CDROMs (Sony, Panasonic, IDE, SCSI etc), so find out which and you should be able to find a sound card with that connector (unless it's 50 pin SCSI anyway)- if it works though it'll probably be quite slow. I've only got one proprietary drive like that and it's a twin speed (300KB/s).
 
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