Chuck(G)
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One of my clones has the original XT-IDE, it's the one i modded for the "Chuck Mod" and fitted a CF adapter to it. It still uses Hargel's BIOS.
I think they are working on one. At least the guys at the table selling them at VCF SoCal told me they were.I too would like to see better IDE solutions. Although I have a stock of IDE drives and CF cards that seem to work fine it would be nice if we had a ZuluIDE that works exactly like ZuluSCSI or BlueSCSI except IDE interface. Image files of any size and no compatibility issues regardless of size.
Site looks unfinished and I haven't heard anything from Rabbithole on it yet. I wonder what's up there, just unfinished?Oh You are right. Looks like there is already a landing page for it here: ZuluIDE. Not sure what they can do about transfer speed though. Early IDE should be no problem with the hardware they use as the transfer speeds were pretty slow but later Ultra ATA 33-133 were quite a speed improvement so not sure the current microcontroller could handle those speeds. At any rate, that would be a great project. It is so nice being able to just create simple image files on a SD card and have it work.
Yes I noticed that too. I am not sure the status. I have sent them an email and awaiting a response.Site looks unfinished and I haven't heard anything from Rabbithole on it yet. I wonder what's up there, just unfinished?
What kind of problems? I found ZuluSCSI to be superior to SCSI2SD in every way. Of course we all have different use cases. Mine has been with classic Macs and Amiga. I like them so much better that I will probably sell all of my SCS2SD cards as I have a few and they have all been replaced by either home assembled BlueSCSI v1 or ZuluSCSI. The RP2040 versions have even faster transfer speeds than the SCSI2SD V6 from what I can tell.Has zuluscsi gotten better? I bought the first version and found is an problematic as the bluescsi. Shame they wont make the scsi2sd as those things worked flawlessly.
Does anyone really have a problem with the speed of CF to IDE adapters? I haven't benchmarked it but in terms of real-world performance mine seems faster than any spinning IDE or SATA disk I ever used.
Looks like there is already a landing page for it here: ZuluIDE. Not sure what they can do about transfer speed though.
All in favor of not allowing posts of this nature which are pure conjecture from ChatGPT say aye.
That actually doesn't sound so bad if you really like physical media. Imagine having a whole box of SD cards each with your specific CD images loaded on them. The only real problem is its Micro SD so they are a bit tough to label.The point of this thing appears to be for emulating an IDE CD-ROM drive, not a disk drive?
That said I'm sure it'll do HD emulation eventually, is kinda pointless otherwise.
CF's are much faster than early 2.5" hard drives with little to no memory cache.
The idea is that you would dump all your ISOs onto a single SD card, then you never have to swap in CDs. It's a bit pointless to have individual SD cards for each CD. Might as well just keep using CDs then.That actually doesn't sound so bad if you really like physical media. Imagine having a whole box of SD cards each with your specific CD images loaded on them. The only real problem is its Micro SD so they are a bit tough to label.
That said I'm sure it'll do HD emulation eventually, is kinda pointless otherwise.
Well except CDs wear out. But yes, having a single SD card hold large numbers of CD ISOs actually sounds cool. Either way its neat.The idea is that you would dump all your ISOs onto a single SD card, then you never have to swap in CDs. It's a bit pointless to have individual SD cards for each CD. Might as well just keep using CDs then.