> by "I'm not sure if there are any drivers available for pre-386 systems"
> though. Do you mean the cdrom .sys driver file? If so, yes there are. I
> have one installed.
Yes, that is what I meant.
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Bernd Blaauw wrote:
Nick Bright schreef:
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Nice to actually see that people read documentation :)
At the time I wrote those texts, there were no *known and working*
(IDE/SCSI) cdromdrivers for config.sys,
and also the 8086-compatible version of SHSUCDX wasn
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Compile-time options: 8086, CD root form not used, High Sierra
supported, Joliet supported, image on CD supported.
Run-time options: tilde generation is off, read only attribute is on
This would seem to indicate that this version of shsucdex is
compatible with this system,
> This would seem to indicate that this version of shsucdex is compatible
> with this system, no?
That would. However, there is a file called shcdx86.com. This is the
file I meant.
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Nick Bright schreef:
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Nice to actually see that people read documentation :)
At the time I wrote those texts, there were no *known and working*
(IDE/SCSI) cdromdrivers for config.sys,
and also the 8086-compatible version of SHSUCDX wasn't released yet.
As you
Nick Bright wrote:
Blair Campbell wrote:
There is an 8086 version of SHSUCDX available, so you musn't use
SHSUCDX to load the extentions, but you must instead use SHSUCD86 or
something like this. I'm not sure if there are any drivers available
for pre-386 systems, however.
I'll try SHSUC
Nick Bright wrote:
Blair Campbell wrote:
As you can see from my previous mailing list post, I do indeed have a
pre-386 system with a CDROM. The above snip leads me to belive that the
cdextensions file (though it runs on my XT) hasn't been debugged for
that platform, and may not even be properl
Blair Campbell wrote:
As you can see from my previous mailing list post, I do indeed have a
pre-386 system with a CDROM. The above snip leads me to belive that the
cdextensions file (though it runs on my XT) hasn't been debugged for
that platform, and may not even be properly compiled (e.g. 386
> As you can see from my previous mailing list post, I do indeed have a
> pre-386 system with a CDROM. The above snip leads me to belive that the
> cdextensions file (though it runs on my XT) hasn't been debugged for
> that platform, and may not even be properly compiled (e.g. 386
> optimizations)?
I had some trouble getting the drive to work on my XT, though when i put
the controller and drive on another machine, it seemed to work ok. In
the readme.txt file from the beta9sr1 ISO file I found this:
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Platform:what to download:
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I hit up google and actually found a driver specific to this 8 bit scsi
card I've got on Adaptec's website. For the sake of the list, I will
post a link to the page as well as the scsi driver and some notes:
"Adding a CDROM to an XT": http://www.seasip.info/AmstradXT/cdrom.html
Adaptec PowerSCS
> boot floppy image and wrote it to disk. It does boot and read the hard
> drive ok, but I have yet to figure out how to make the SCSI CD-ROM work.
> Is there a generic driver for SCSI cd-rom?
Try doing a search for ASPICD.SYS
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