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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: Hodgkinson on January 12, 2008, 01:45:41 PM
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Has anyone ever tried to make a driver for one of these?
http://www.fujifilm.com/products/digital/download/10/
If drivers existed for this device, this would be a really useful way of transferring large files and images between a PC and the Amiga without the need for networking or USB; albeit perhaps a bit slow.
My guesswork says that this device works by positioning the R/W heads of the floppy drive above similar heads in the "Floppy" and simply using the floppy drive as a means to communicate to the SD-Card.
Hodgkinson.
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What a horribly complex device!!! :-o
Let the floppy drive die ... instead a better idea would be an SD-Card reader that replaces the mechanical disk drive, and plugs directly into the Disk Drive cable :-)
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That aint an SD card!
Its smart media which was one of the first flash media's made. No such thing exists for SD cards or any other formats.
I have a SD card to IDE adaptor off ebay that works very well with the Amiga (doesnt support hot swapping though) which I am currently booting different OS's off (3.9 at the mo), thats probably the best route.
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Wrong!
Sony made one for Memory Stick cards.
And Sandisk made for SD.
"No such thing exists for SD cards or any other formats."
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Hmm seems there is one for the Sony Memory stick, cant find the Sandisk one though, got a link?
Best I could find was: Amazon link to a Sandisk Smartmedia adaptor (http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-FlashPath-Floppy-Reader-SDDR-21-01/dp/B0000488VL)
Ahh feck there is such a thing.
Technically its MMC not SD but mehh.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200190796017 (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200190796017)
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My bad.
Made by Apacer, not Sandisk.
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My bad. Made by Apacer, not Sandisk.
Link?
/me wonders back to google and starts looking.
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Don't have.
Found them at work last year.
If they still are there i'll post a pic.
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Yeah, OK, smart media then :-) My mistake
The adaptor itself is an interesting solution to allowing memory cards to work on a computer without taking the case off or having working USB.
Still think it would be nice to have one of these working on a miggy, though.
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Let the floppy drive die ... instead a better idea would be an SD-Card reader that replaces the mechanical disk drive, and plugs directly into the Disk Drive cable
this already exist :
(http://jeanfrancoisdelnero.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/Working_MCUStandAlone_HxCFloppyEmulator.jpg)[
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If any developer who has worked on these homebrew "floppy disk emulators" is interested in working together to bring one of these to the market I feel they could be made commercially viable.
Especially if it targetted towards multiple platforms (Amiga, AtariST, Spectrum, C64, CPC, BBC etc.) and includes support for protected disk formats.
I would certainly be interested in offering technical and hardware assistance, together with commercial expertise and manufacturing contacts on how to turn this into a real, saleable product.
I have many ideas in this area which could reduce the BOM considerably and improve usability.
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please get together guys. i hate to see these projects go nowhere... they always seem to get half finished then just die. :-(
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bloodline wrote:
What a horribly complex device!!! :-o
Let the floppy drive die ... instead a better idea would be an SD-Card reader that replaces the mechanical disk drive, and plugs directly into the Disk Drive cable :-)
Addonics SD to IDE Adapters (http://www.addonics.com/products/cf_adapter/)
Addonics flash memory readers (http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/)
Do these type devices exist for SCSI?
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Can you buy "this" anywhere?
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cv643d wrote:
Can you buy "this" anywhere?
It seems that it may be a possibility to purchase this or something like it in the future should, as alexh said earlier and I quote ...
alexh wrote:
I would certainly be interested in offering technical and hardware assistance, together with commercial expertise and manufacturing contacts on how to turn this into a real, saleable product.
I have many ideas in this area which could reduce the BOM considerably and improve usability.
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metalman wrote:
Addonics SD to IDE Adapters (http://www.addonics.com/products/cf_adapter/)
Addonics flash memory readers (http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/)
Do these type devices exist for SCSI?
I supposed you could use one of those with a SCSI-to-IDE adapter. Wow, wouldn't that be amazingly complex...
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LoadWB wrote:
metalman wrote:
Addonics SD to IDE Adapters (http://www.addonics.com/products/cf_adapter/)
Addonics flash memory readers (http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/)
Do these type devices exist for SCSI?
I supposed you could use one of those with a SCSI-to-IDE adapter. Wow, wouldn't that be amazingly complex...
Searching finds the following:
Dual ports or single port IDE to SCSI adapter (68 pin) (http://www.addonics.com/products/io/ad2idesc.asp)
SCSI to IDE/SATA/USB/FW Adapters (http://www.pc-pitstop.com/scsi_ide_adapters/)
This model converts 40pin IDE to 50pin Male SCSI interface.
ACARD SCSI to IDE Adapter, Model AEC-7720U (http://www.pc-pitstop.com/scsi_ide_adapters/aec7720u.asp)
SFF IDE to Compact Flash Adapter (http://www.acscontrol.com/Index_ACS.asp?Page=/Pages/Products/CompactFlash/SFF_IDE_To_CF_Adapter.htm)
The next question would be if you can format it as a bootable drive. Both devices claim to be transparent and require no drivers.