Ridiculous Hardware Project

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Just thought you lot might fancy a laugh.

I did this for no good reason other than Im bored.

Now, before I start, I will tell you that I am a serious Atari user. I love them. And now that long ago, I converted them to run Compact Flash cards. The Falcon has IDE as standard, the STE does not, but I got it converted to do so. The TT has only SCSI.

Now, with this, I have also done a few adaptations where I can just plug in the Card I want for the OS... One for GEM, One for Magic, One For MiNT, One for Linux and so on, and so forth, and so, what I have, is a handfull of Compact Flash to IDE Adapters and a fari few Compact Flash cards.

I have just scrambled them together to see what I have got, and I worked out 4 1GB Cards, stuffed them onto a PCI Raid card and had a go... It works!

Got to be the most thick thing, but I am mirroring and striping, and I have just installed DOS6.22 and WFWG311 onto it... Its actually pretty nippy too!

Nothing useful here, just thought I would share it with those of you WGAF
 
I had the idea of running CF Cards on Raid cards using IDE-CF adapters. They are better cos they almost zero seek times.

the only bad thing is that you can put pagefiles on it as CF cards have limited write cycles.
 
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