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Arent there IDE to Compact Flash Adapters?

• bombcar 4y ago
  They’re often not happy about being swapped live (because DOS isn’t a huge fan of hard drives disappearing).
  • __del__ 4y ago
    that's where "abort, retry, fail?" really shines
  • jeroenhd 4y ago
    I'm far from an expert in these things, but I've seen SD cards with WiFi servers that allow remote browsing photos on them straight from the camera itself (not using the weird WiFi-over-SD extensions to give cameras themselves WiFi, which the SD standard allows for). Surely someone could take one or those IDE/CF adaptors and add small (100MB) write only and read only partitions controlled by a chip like an ESP32. You'd get two drive letters, one you can use to push data to the WiFi server and one you can use to pull data from there. That way you don't even need to write much of a driver for the DOS system at all because there's no locking and filesystem corruption to deal with. The parts are worth a dollar at most, all you'd need to figure out is the interfacing with the file system. You can even do Linux style device control by exposing fake files to DOS that the system can try to write to for things like configuration. Maybe someone in the legacy gaming space can work out an open source product for this! I think many people would love to transfer stuff through easier means and selling such devices to enterprises stuck with old hardware can be a significant business opportunity.