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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: blanning on February 22, 2009, 09:14:14 PM

Title: ide compact flash adapter source and questions
Post by: blanning on February 22, 2009, 09:14:14 PM

Does anyone have a good source in the US for inexpensive ide compact flash adapters?  All the ones on ebay seem to have male pins like they expect you to attach them to a cable.  I want one that will lay flat on a 600 and 1200 motherboard.  It also needs to not interfere with an indivision.

Same question for CF cards.  Looks like the 4gb cards are running about $16 on ebay.  Does anyone have a cheaper source?  I'm planning on three of each.

Has anyone tried one of the adapters that takes two cf cards?

Has anyone tried the adapters that take SD cards instead of CF cards?  Is this likely to work with an amiga?

Also, are these a lot faster than a normal ide disk or about the same?

lots of questions.  thanks.

brian

Title: Re: ide compact flash adapter source and questions
Post by: pyrre on February 22, 2009, 09:47:40 PM

Take a look here! (http://www.dealextreme.com/search.dx/search.ide%20-%20cf)

I have this (http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.10309) and this (http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.1698). they both work nicely with my A1200. the cf adapter was tested with a 512mb cf card.
The SD adapter was tested successfully with a 512mb and a 1gb MMC card. They should do the same with SD cards as well.
HOWEVER!
They do not like to share the IDE bus with any other device (i do not know if buffered ide controllers works (like the 4xIDE devices), since i have none of those. My a1200 runs primary on SCSI.
But hey.. for a couple of dollars and free shipping...

(a copy from: here (http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=40469))

Title: Re: ide compact flash adapter source and questions
Post by: mechy on February 22, 2009, 10:06:47 PM

Newegg has 4gig kingstons for around $12.99 i think

i have only used the single card adapters,not the dual,search ebay,there are tons on there.


Mike

Title: Re: ide compact flash adapter source and questions
Post by: brianb on February 23, 2009, 12:29:44 AM

I bought this one, after studying a picture of someones else's setup using  a cf reader and indivision..  Got it in a few days in the mail...

http://cgi.ebay.com/CF-to-44-Pin-IDE-Adapter-Adaptor-Female-For-PC-20-197A_W0QQitemZ110354150084QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCA_Cables_Adapters?hash=item110354150084&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50

Title: Re: ide compact flash adapter source and questions
Post by: blanning on February 23, 2009, 01:30:27 AM

Thanks everyone.  That's what I was looking for.

brian

Title: Re: ide compact flash adapter source and questions
Post by: delshay on February 23, 2009, 05:12:01 AM

dual cards work fine on my system.

iv just loaded OS4 on to a micro-sd card.