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[WhitetailAni]

The numbers are SCSI ID. SCSI can support 7 or 15 devices depending on what protocol, and each device on the chain is assigned a number, including your controller.

[Mark Kaine]

10 minutes ago, FakeKGB said:

The numbers are SCSI ID. SCSI can support 7 or 15 devices depending on what protocol, and each device on the chain is assigned a number, including your controller.

Oh I see, thanks. I thought its some early region locking bs or something

 

Sooo, I can only connect one at a time to the Akai I suppose, because theyre both the same number? And its probably 2 cables for one device, one to read, one to write? Not sure if that makes sense… 

[WhitetailAni]

1 minute ago, Mark Kaine said:

Oh I see, thanks. I thought its some early region locking bs or something

 

Sooo, I can only connect one at a time to the Akai I suppose, because theyre both the same number? And its probably 2 cables one to read, one to write? Not sure if that makes sense… 

You should be able to switch the numbers. I've never seen a SCSI device where the SCSI ID was locked.

[Mark Kaine]

27 minutes ago, FakeKGB said:

You should be able to switch the numbers. I've never seen a SCSI device where the SCSI ID was locked.

yeah, but there must be a reason its set like this, maybe the Akai can only read one ID?  And do i need both cables…? i wish i could remember lol. Oh or it has 2 connectors for chaining…

 

Either way I just need the MO Disk drive for now, guess I'll figure it out.

 

Edit: ah it could be this

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SCSI devices that are connected to different SCSI controllers can have duplicate SCSI IDs. See "SCSI IDs" and refer to the instructions that come with the SCSI devices for more information about setting a SCSI ID.

 

[Kilrah]

If you have one controller you chain both devices and set them to different IDs. 

[PandaPrime71]

Found this today don’t know much about it but I heard it was from the early 50s and 60s. If anyone knows more or has links to what this is I would love to know

[Whyleonhart]

Bask in The glory of the logitech wingman extreme digital from 1998

[18358414]

Don't know if y'all like hard drives, but I plugged this thing in yesterday in search of some old documents and the thing still works perfectly.  Booted Windows 3.1 in dosbox. 

[Mark Kaine]

3 hours ago, Kilrah said:

If you have one controller you chain both devices and set them to different IDs. 

But that still doesnt explain why both are set to 5, seems weird?

Im going to try it out tomorrow, my memory is fuzzy how that thing worked (the Akai Sample machine) but iirc i'll need to press a "preview button" for the duration of a disk, aka song, which is about 30 minutes… otherwise I need to connect some kind of midi sequencer / interface. Best case would be to just copy the data to my PC obviously, but im unsure how or what file format it even is.

 

 

PS:  I think Im fine with pressing a button for 30 minutes before buying an adapter at Scambay!

 

lmao

[Rex Hite]

I don't think there's a SCSI connection I can't make, extend, gender-change, adapt, or terminate!

I like to use old stuff but I do not miss SCSI!

So many widths! And the ASPI drivers and the device drivers and then figuring out if devices auto-terminate or you need an external terminator...

What a mess.

 

[Rex Hite]

This is a Windows 98 PC I still use as a backup for another Windows 98 PC. It has two Zip drives just because.

It's got a nicely yellowed keyboard and a vintage Microsoft serial mouse for the authentic look.

I wanted to post this photo here with Firefox 2.0 in Windows 98 but while I can read this forum, it won't let me log in.

Bummer. The Opera browser that works with Windows 98 wouldn't even allow the forum to load.

 

Wouldn't it be fun if LTT forum had a companion forum specifically that allowed vintage OSs to login and post vintage-y stuff.

 

[WhitetailAni]

1 minute ago, Rex Hite said:

two Zip drives

That's not 2 Zip drives, that's a Zip drive and a regular 3.5" floppy drive.

Curious, what type of Zip drive? I have a 250MB and a 100MB 3.5" ATAPI drives.

[Rex Hite]

3 minutes ago, FakeKGB said:

That's not 2 Zip drives, that's a Zip drive and a regular 3.5" floppy drive.

Curious, what type of Zip drive? I have a 250MB and a 100MB 3.5" ATAPI drives.

The blue drive on the top of the case is an Iomega SCSI zip drive.

Both are 100MB

[WhitetailAni]

2 minutes ago, Rex Hite said:

The blue drive on the top of the case is an Iomega SCSI zip drive.

Both are 100MB

Ah, missed him.

Random question, can you run 2 Zip disks in RAID 0 or something similar that puts them into one large partition?

[Rex Hite]

10 minutes ago, FakeKGB said:

Ah, missed him.

Random question, can you run 2 Zip disks in RAID 0 or something similar that puts them into one large partition?

The standard tech forum answer to that question is "why would you even want to do that?"

 

The better answer is "I have no idea but that would be awesome!!!!"

[SimplyChunk]

2 hours ago, FakeKGB said:

Ah, missed him.

Random question, can you run 2 Zip disks in RAID 0 or something similar that puts them into one large partition?

Then some devious sod mixes up all your 'paired' zip disks

[Rex Hite]

4 hours ago, FakeKGB said:

Ah, missed him.

Random question, can you run 2 Zip disks in RAID 0 or something similar that puts them into one large partition?

I just tried to set two Zip disks as a Striped set in XP but it will not allow Zip disks to be set as Dynamic disks, so no go in XP as a software RAID.

 

 

[Bitter]

http://www.gamechronicles.com/gear/pc/logitechcordless/rumblepad2.htm

So I was digging in a bin in my garage and I guess they used to be near a computer at some point because I FOUND THE RECEIVER FOR MY RUMBLEPAD 2! I still can't game with it because I suck at game pads and I don't think anything really supports it but finally I found it. I don't think it's been used since at least 10 years ago and I bought it at least 5 years prior to that. Plugged it into Windows 10, instantly recognized it and installed it, grabbed the Logitech software which works fine, and played a little OpenTyrian with it...very very poorly.

[Whyleonhart]

Here’s a desktop, game console, defibrillator, petty sedate, development machine, and everything else a person needs all in one.

[freeagent]

Not sure if I’ve posted this here..

 

 

[WhitetailAni]

3 minutes ago, freeagent said:

Not sure if I’ve posted this here..

What's it equivalent to, and/or what would it be?

[freeagent]

1 minute ago, FakeKGB said:

What's it equivalent to, and/or what would it be?

Oops, sorry man!

 

That is my X58 rig.. though its not running.. those are my for sale pics

 

No one will buy it in my town, but I figured I would try again.

 

It is a Rampage III Formula, Xeon X5690 E.S., and some decent Super Talent Hypers.

[da na]

Tomorrow I get home to find my Presario 1685. Hope the person who sent it to me didn’t ship it in a paper envelope since they seemed to have no clue about anything about it. Got it in what looked like basically unused condition for a good $40 usd. No OS but seemed totally fine otherwise.

specs:

AMD k6-2 380 (part of me wants to stick a 500mhz one in there and see if it can handle it)

ships with 64m of ram, will upgrade to 192 with the 128m memory module

ATI Rage XL graphics

Sound Blaster 16

combo CD/RW and floppy drive, no swapping modules or anything, both are always usable at the same time 

dual pcmcia

came with a charger which was nice, many older laptops don’t, and the battery is most likely totally fried 

and it has great speakers too.

And another nice thing: native USB support.

 

No exact confirmed date on when it was made but by the release dates of the hardware and the copyright date of the manuals I’d say between 1999 and 2002.

[freeagent]

I had that listed for a hundred bucks and no one bought it lol.. that’s ok.. we have history.

[Rex Hite]

Here's a bunch of adapters I keep on hand so I can really stretch out the useful life of old computers.

Left to right top to bottom there's a;

25-pin to null-modem,

25-pin parallel to centronics printer,

25-pin to 9-pin serial,

USB to Centronics printer,

USB to 9-pin serial,

DP male to HDMI female,

PS/2 to serial,

PS/2 to USB mouse,

PS/2 to USB keyboard,

PS./2 to AT keyboard,

DA-15 to VGA,

3.5" PATA to SATA,

3.5" PATA to 2.5" PATA.

2.5" PATA to SATA

SATA to USB 3

Floppy to USB

USB to VGA,

DVI to VGA,

Female USB to female USB board header

Male USB to male board header

Molex-type to SATA type power adapter