GoldenGate vortex 386

[Timtheloon]

I have a question for keropi

I read somewhere on another forum which I cannot seem to find now that you could get around the drive limit of 504mb on the harddrive on the goldengate by using a certain program.

can you confirm this or was i dreaming it?????

 

[keropi]

yes you are correct, I was using "OnTrack Disk Manager 9.53" , it's a hdd bios overlay that is designed for old systems with hdd capacity limitations. At one time all HDDs came with a diskette: Disk Manager, Disk Wizard and so on, same thing

 

[BlindGerMan]

Yes, or you can use an ISA IDE Controller with own BIOS!

 

[Timtheloon]

So I tried ontrack but it didn't like the fact my drive wasn't IBM so I found this program called EZ-Drive

This will allow you to install the cf card and give you 2gb partitions

I.e. I now have 2 x 2gb partitions on my 4gb cf card

Here is a link to the software

http://www.philscomputerlab.com/western-digital.html

You need to set the Harddrive up in the Goldengate bios to look like this

Number 15 allows you to change the heads, sectors etc

Here is a link to the rough guide I used to do it too
http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=42113

Hope this helps to anyone trying to get past the 504mb limit



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Forgot to Ask cugar124

see your Goldengate 386sx have you tried different memory and does it have an FPU and floppy disk PLCC upgrades

maybe try the card without them fitted if you have the tool to remove them

 

[cugar124]

sorry guys seem to be well behind you on my own thread LOL cards fitted are village Tronic Ariadne 2, Cybervision 64 3d, Cyberstorm Mk2 overclocked to 72mhz and fast ata mk4

 

[Timtheloon]

I think that's the problem right there "Cyberstorm overclocked to 72Mhz" I think it must be at 50Mhz

 

[cugar124]

Hi I only have the 4 sticks of 30pin simms for it and it does have the Floppy PLCC too its strange it is seen in which amiga and the LED flashes but no clicks from the speaker tried another one on the external speaker pins and it clicks on connecting it but nothing otherwise. I have had the 486slc many years ago and never had any problems with it on my PPC 4000 rig I had back then which sadly I dont have now.

 

[BlindGerMan]

Well, I had often RAM Problems with the GoldenGate! RAM changed and the GG rocks again! And... Check your PSU!

 

[cugar124]

thanks guys will try that the PSU is a new one done by chucky

 

[cugar124]

OK some success I think now I have a BIOS Screen turns out the crystal was a 66 mhz one so swapped with a 50mhz one on the vortex also removed the floppy controller chip as well so now to figure out how to get the keys to work in the bios

 

[Timtheloon]

GoldenGate vortex 386

The keyboard should work straight away but sometimes on mine I have to wait a few seconds before it let me move

Question was the crystal you changed on the bridgeboard or on the Cyberstorm

By the way don't think your monitor is big enough ha ha ha


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[BlindGerMan]

Do you use an origin A2000/3000/4000 Keyboard or a ps2 one connected to a Lyra?

The CS was reversed to 50 MHz, or?

 

[cugar124]

Hi Guys
OK got to the bottom of it Cyrstal was on the Bridgeboard and the Keyboard I changed the F9 key a few weeks back but its not working so contacts must be shot so Now I am stuck at setting up the board DoHHH thats my OLD OLD screen love it LOL my little trusty one is beside it works with scart. mind you have to do tims system no fast ram to have it run there is a full 16mb on board which is nice. now I have to figure out how to make my floppy drive run and my machine work the way I like it also fix the F9 key problem.

Oh Keyboard is the original one sorry nearly forgot



OH and test my 286 commodore board ready to sell it as well fitted the fpu to it but not had time to test it LOL.

 

[Timtheloon]

GoldenGate vortex 386

Good to hear that you are getting life out of the bridgeboard again

Keep us updated on the progress


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[BlindGerMan]

So good news! Good luck for the finish...

I use a Amiga HD floppy drive with my GoldenGates. This works very well!!

 

[cugar124]

Hi Guys I am having a real Night mare with the boot disk my MSDOS disk 1 will not boot and when I create one on my server which is server 08 the tools on my dos disk tell me Im using the wrong version can someone help me with a boot disk please? my dos is 6.22 many thanks

 

[Timtheloon]

you tried here

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

 

[cugar124]

just trying it now its a nightmare to navigate this amount of info no wonder we love the old days so much it was soooo much easier LOL

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OK I can make a boot disk to then copy my dos back onto but it wont then boot don't suppose anyone has the list of files I would need to setup dos 6.22 please

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Tim dont suppose you know of anywhere to get a 387 from

 

[Timtheloon]

Sadly no

ask on here or try ebay

BlindGerman may be able to help too

 

[cugar124]

its been a very long time since I spent a full day off on a computer problem **** I forgot how addictive making old hardware was LOL BRING IT ON so glad I did not get the 2386 commodore one after all this the goldengate is wonderful to mess with thanks guys so far now I need to find an ISA video card any suggestions? wondering if I put it in the isa slot on the next to my fast ATA will it work?


ahhhh can someone help with the first disk of MSDOS 6.22 I have a certificate of authenticity just in case the admins are watching LOL

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OK now My grey cells hurt if I just copy my dos disks to the c: drive will that work?