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Greetings!
I'm working on an old PC XT, just for grins. Though old and slow I find
it enjoyable to play with older technology that was around before I got
into computers.
The system I'm working with is the (at the time) very popular Leading
Edge Model D. I've got an 8088 Mk2, 8087Mk2, and
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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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:
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- SNIP -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Platform:what to download:
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)?
