XT-CF-Lite V4

This is a place holder page for the XT-CF-Lite V4 card.

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Tips

• 4GB card is the maximum recommended card for this adapter. It offers the maximum space allowed on the FAT16 (2GB) and IDE standard (2 Drives) however DOS takes a long time calculating the available space. You can still purchase the 4GB card and partition it in Linux to a smaller value depending on the actual space you need.

Post build

• It is recommended to boot the computer and install DOS 6.22. This will format your drive and install the DOS system which has tools you can use to manage your system. The DOS will install however you will still have problems booting since DOS does not issue the fdisk /mbr you have to do this manually.
• Once you are booting from the CF card you can run fdisk again to create a extended partition and create a drive D:
• Format drive D in order to use the second half of the 4GB CF card by issuing the "format /s d:" command.

Boot up

During the bootup if your card doesn't have any conflicts then you will see the XT-IDE menu. This will allow you to enter commands to control how your system boots.

Type: "A A" ​to boot from the A drive. This will be required if you want to install DOS for the first time from the A drive. Once DOS is installed you will need to again boot from the A: drive and issue the fdisk /mbr command to install the MBR to the C drive as the DOS 6.22 setup does not do this by default. ​

Troubleshooting

• Hard drive does not boot - try fdisk /mbr
• Cannot load COMMAND, system halted - Make sure that there is a line in AUTOEXEC.BAT that reads "COMSPEC=X:\PATH" where "X:\PATH" is wherever COMMAND.COM resides. Edit the PATH command in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file, if you are trying to run a command in another directory that should be accessible from anywhere.