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This hard drive is loud. (Flicker warning)
Bun's Lab
What I need now is a small compact flash card with all the DOS hardware testing tools. If you have suggestions beyond the usual CheckIt and Norton Sysinfo, please post them in the comments. I will share the image file once I'm done
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Ok I don't understand this: when I create an image of the empty CF card, use that with PCem to install DOS, write it back, it doesn't work. When I do the same with the Vectra, it works in the Vectra but not with the 286. Not with XT-IDE, and also not when I use the original BIOS routines with the CHS settings that the Vectra detects: 978,8,32. All I get is "missing operation system".
I've also been having problems with DR-DOS and Compaq MS-DOS 3.34 and these 128Mb CF cards.
Bun's Lab
Yeahhh .. that would have popped
I would've liked to put this to a test and pop it on camera but my power supply goes into over current protection.
Old vs new tantalums. If you don't feel like replacing tantalums with tantalums, I think you could also go for some nice modern polymer low ESR caps instead. The reason tantalums were used in the first place was because of their low ESR compared to normal electrolytics at that time. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's my theory.
Bun's Lab
Ordered parts! I hope I can finally break through my giant backlog
I feel like a kid at Christmas
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