bettablue
Veteran Member
At this point, I would have to agree that having a CF card alone at least for me, would be perfect. I am actually thinking of installing an XTIDE into my system, but I have some questions about implimentation.
Initially, I'm going to spend the time and money on buying a Western Digital MFM controller, and another full height drive. I'm doing that for later purposes Then I'll want to swap out the controller and hard disk drives for an XTIDE. BUT here's something I'm not sure has been addressed. I saw two adapters that interest me highly. One is a rear expansion slot mount for a CF card, and the other is a dual CF card adapter. With tqo CF card extenders I could actually install 2 of the expansion slot cover brackets, so that there would be two CF cards sticking out of the rear of the expansion unit. (Does this make sense?)
Will the XTIDE support two CF cards in this manner? or will the dual CF adapter make it appear that there is only one CF card?
My intentions are to use one as a boot device loaded with DOS, any and all configuration files and drivers. The other would be partitioned into as required by the OS into several partitioned and formatted so that I have one partition for DOS utility and shell programs, another partition for all of my business applications, and finally one or more for my games collection.
Would the XTIDE allow a dual CF card setup like what I described?
Initially, I'm going to spend the time and money on buying a Western Digital MFM controller, and another full height drive. I'm doing that for later purposes Then I'll want to swap out the controller and hard disk drives for an XTIDE. BUT here's something I'm not sure has been addressed. I saw two adapters that interest me highly. One is a rear expansion slot mount for a CF card, and the other is a dual CF card adapter. With tqo CF card extenders I could actually install 2 of the expansion slot cover brackets, so that there would be two CF cards sticking out of the rear of the expansion unit. (Does this make sense?)
Will the XTIDE support two CF cards in this manner? or will the dual CF adapter make it appear that there is only one CF card?
My intentions are to use one as a boot device loaded with DOS, any and all configuration files and drivers. The other would be partitioned into as required by the OS into several partitioned and formatted so that I have one partition for DOS utility and shell programs, another partition for all of my business applications, and finally one or more for my games collection.
Would the XTIDE allow a dual CF card setup like what I described?
It's awkward to have 40-pin on it too, and personally I'm not convinced there is any point since CF cards are so cheap and have more capacity that could ever be used in an XT.