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Easiest and most efficient way to store large amounts of CD images for Windows 98

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First post, by Smedis2

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Hi! I've had a pretty okay time with a PC i recently grabbed off of eBay but the biggest pain has been dealing with file sizes.

I tried an external 250 GB (obv formatted to 128) IDE Slave drive, but, while it worked for a little while it crapped out, and while it seems to be working again after a format it was never placed in a very comfortable position to begin with. I have CD-RWs and CD-Rs, but the former is hit and miss and the latter I hate making single-use discs, especially when they get screwed up.

I do have it networked, but it's only one way (from my main PC to the 98 machine) and it's so slow I'm not sure it'd really be that great anyways, though I would be curious if it's possible to access the filesystem from the old to the new.

Reply 1 of 3, by GigAHerZ

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I have a VM in my machine that has Debian Net install (just terminal, no GUI) and it mounts my NAS shares and then re-shares them with SMBv1. This is accessible by the oldest Microsoft networking clients, even from DOS.
I don't want my NAS to share stuff constantly over SMBv1, as it is quite unsecure.
In addition, it also provides a FTP server with the NAS contents, just in case.

How fast your images should be? I would suggest the retro PC is the limiting factor, not really the network speed over which the CD images are mounted. 😀

"640K ought to be enough for anybody." - And i intend to get every last bit out of it even after loading every damn driver!
A little about software engineering: https://byteaether.github.io/

Reply 2 of 3, by RetroPCCupboard

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I am planning to do similar to @GigAHerz. I have a spare machine that I have installed UNRAID on. I hope to add a network card to it so it will have two ethernet ports. One will be connected to a network that my modern machines are on. The other will be on a separate network used by my retro PCs. I haven't figured out how I will enable smb1 on the retro PC network but not the modern one. I think it can be done with a SAMBA docker but haven't investigated yet.

Reply 3 of 3, by chinny22

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What do you mean external slave drive?
is it an external drive via USB or similar or a drive attached the internal IDE interface?

What I do is have either a large hard drive partitioned or second internal hard "data" drive with all the iso's as well as drivers, patches etc.
But I also No-CD as many games as possible reducing the need for iso's in the first place.

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