Subj : Re: MS-DOS HDDs and partitions
To   : Paulie420
From : Abbub
Date : Sun Apr 16 2023 07:38:01

 > They're hard to get, you say? I thought that was an easy solution in
 > 2o23... Jesus!

XTIDE themselves aren't hard to get, but you probably don't really want an
XTIDE card for your 486 because they're 8-bit cards. What you want is a
network card or an IDE Multi I/O card with an empty boot ROM socket. The
later, the IDE Multi I/O card with an actual socket are the things that are
hard to get. Network cards with a rom socket are relatively easy to come by
these days and work great. Then you can just get a EEPROM with the 386+
version of the XTIDE universal BIOS, stick it in the network card, and it'll
take over drive translations for you.

Also, if you're manually copying .IMG files to floppy disks, I *highly*
recommend you look into getting a Gotek with the FlashFloppy firmware on it.
It'll make your life *way* easier.

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