Nevets01
Experienced Member
What it says in the title.
Anyone interested in this sort of thing, and if so, how would you use it?
Anyone interested in this sort of thing, and if so, how would you use it?
I suppose the one area that's not really covered by the XTIDE (unless this has changed and I've missed it) is it doesn't support CD-ROMs. Don't know how much call there really is for CDs on XT-class machines, but technically it might be an unfilled niche.
I suppose the one area that's not really covered by the XTIDE (unless this has changed and I've missed it) is it doesn't support CD-ROMs. Don't know how much call there really is for CDs on XT-class machines, but technically it might be an unfilled niche.
I assume a parallel port backpack cd rom drive would work for this though. But, yeah, I can't see the CD-Rom use-case myself. In the case of an XT-IDE, it's easiest to just move the CF card over to a modern pc and copy that way.
SHSUCDX is light and comes in a 8088 compatible flavor
Is it the card itself that doesn't work with CDROMs?
I have network cards in my machines, so that's actually my go-to solution for most file transfer situations. Now it's true that the overhead for network drives can vary a lot (from only about 20k for EtherDFS and a light packet driver to... very much more, if you're loading a whole Microsoft network stack or similar*), but when you start comparing that to how much a CD driver and MSCDEX chews up... I guess I'd rather have the network card by a fair margin if it's an either/or.
(* Of course, my favorite quick-and-dirty way of shooting something over to the XT is piping a ZIP file into netcat. Overhead for that is the 5k for the packet driver, and that's it.)