Nice work. Go, man, go!
Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Tuesday, August 11, 2020 4:56 PM, Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: > Hi All, > > Today was a pretty fun day… > > After a few hours in CAD, some time 3D-printing, soldering, making a label > and what not... Today, I manufactured a brand new battery for my 486 > notebook. Works like a champ. Hopefully, it remedies a couple minor issues. I > think the completely dead battery OEM battery was causing those. > > Oh, also threw together a internal audio amplifier in the docking station. > This allows me to use the Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold sound card without > external speakers and just to run a audio patch cable from the card back to > the docking station's speaker input jacks. The card has no on-board amplifier > and cannot drive speakers directly. TDK DVD Writer works (at least as a > CD-ROM) and can even play music CDs. Although, I must say that none of the > FreeDOS CD/DVD drivers work with this drive. I was able to find drivers for > the 10/100MB NIC. So, all the hardware is working. > > !!! ETHERDFS works great for moving stuff to and from the Notebook. Thanks > Mateusz. !!! :-) > (FYI, works in PC-DOS too. Haven’t tried it in MS-DOS or DR-DOS… Yet.) > > Getting the DVD drive working was the hardest part. Too make a long story > shorter… The main problem was getting the VLB Super I/O board to talk to it. > Decades ago, I just used the CD controller on a Sound Blaster Card instead of > the I/O board. I no longer have that card and needed to use the I/O board. > Well, it is configured through jumpers (about 16 of them). I no longer have > the manual and hours searching the internet found nothing. So, through trial > and error got it good enough. > > They really don’t make ’um like they used too. This docking station is > something else. I forgot how it turned this notebook into a more than capable > desktop. It’s got 2 ISA and 2 VLB expansion slots. I’ve got that DVD drive in > there. But, it also has room, mounts and power for 2 more full sized hard > drives. But, I gave up on getting either the 40GB or 60GB IDE drives I have > to work in it. > > For those who are interested, as it sits right now, this is how the > notebook+docking station is configured… > > (I’m so glad I had imaged all my old software and driver diskettes) > > ACom Vesa-4000 Notebook (no longer in business) > 486DX2-66Mhz w/12mb RAM, 524mb Seagate Hard Drive > 9.5” Active Matrix LCD Display > 2-button Trackball (non-functional, COM2, maybe dead) > Logitech ClearCase Mouse (COM1) > Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold w/12mb RAM > WinBond DC-280E VLB Super I/O Board > 3COM 509B 10/100 NIC > Internal 3W+3W stereo amplifier & 2” speakers. > TDK DVD-RW Drive. > 3.5” Floppy Drive > > 2 x Type 2 PCMCIA Slots (aka: 1 x Type 3 PCMCIA) > 2 x VGA (one at a time, up to 1024x768) > 3 x COM (1,3,4) (another on notebook, but inaccessible when docked) > 2 x LPT (another on notebook, but inaccessible when docked) > 2 x GAME > 1 x SCSI > 1 x PS/2 (another on notebook, but inaccessible when docked) > > PCMCIA Type 2: > DSI Scout 28,800bps Fax/Modem (Working) > EXP 14,400bps Fax/Modem (unknown state) > Maxtor MobileMax 4MB Flash Memory Card (not working, possible config issue or > dead) > > OS: > MS-DOS 6.22 (Works) > PC-DOS 7.1 (Works better) > FreeDOS 1.3-RC3 (Works best, except with Windows 3.11) > > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
