Interesting to read about the possibility of patching in support for newer southbridges, Michał. Can you provide a link to any more information on that? I tried googling a bit, including seraches limited to the Vogons forum, but nothing came up.
thanks. On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 5:45 PM Michał Dec <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > You may need to patch the driver from Yamaha. They stopped caring at some > point, but you can still patch in support for southbridges up to ICH6 and > VT82C686B. > > Best regards, > > Michał > W dniu 08.03.2021 o 17:15, Jerome Shidel pisze: > > Hi Everybody,Thanks for all the advice and information.Just some rough > machine history.I originally bought that Pentium Pro new back in late 95 at a > computer show. About a decade ago, I migrated that machine from it’s original > case to a 2U rack mount case to conserve space. The original case was > enormous and was about 3ft tall. If I recall correctly, it had 14 5.25 drive > bays. 10 external bays and 4 internal with room for 4 more internal ones. > But, I was very busy back then to play around with that machine. So, I didn’t > really do anything with it other than boot it a couple times. A year or so > later, the CPU fan went bad and I changed it Then about 5 years or so back, > the CMOS / Clock battery finally died (20 years, not bad). However, it would > forget all BIOS settings after changing them left it booting from floppy or > cd/dvd only. Being inside an IC soldered to the mother board, I > procrastinated fixing it. Not trusting my de-soldering skills, I had a friend > remove the old clock IC. Then, I soldered in a socket and plugged in a new > clock. Yippy, all is good again with since 2019. Now finally, I’ve gotten > around to messing with it. Installed FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 straight from the > LiveCD. Got networking working. Now working on getting sound support. Wish I > could use ISA instead of PCI.Being in a 2U rack mount chassis, it has a PCI > riser for the expansion cards. I wish I could put an ISA card in there. I > have (in my opinion) the best sound card Creative Labs ever released. The > Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold with daughter board to max’d RAM. When looking at > sound cards on eBay, I found that card sells from $150-$300 without the extra > RAM module. No, I’m not selling it. I’m using it in the docking station for > my 486DX2-66 notebook. :-)After the great advice you all gave me, I found a > NIB (opened to verify contents, but card still factory sealed) YMF744 based > sound card on eBay for $25. So, I ordered it. I don’t recall if the mother > board for the Pentium Pro has a SB-Link. It is a server board. So, probably > not. But, it may have DDMA support. I guess I’ll find out when the card > arrives and I install it. The sound card should arrive next week and I’ll > slap it in there soon after. I’ll post the results.Thanks again, all the > information was a huge help.:-)Jerome > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing > [email protected]https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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