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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: skilgannon on February 22, 2010, 02:20:10 PM

Title: Front A4000 CF bay??
Post by: skilgannon on February 22, 2010, 02:20:10 PM

Afternoon all, my A4000 boots from the internal CF (OS 3.9).  What I was hoping to try and do was to use the front floppy / cd bay to house another CF adapter on the IDE chain (is that even possible!) to be able to move software from my PC back and forth to the A4000.

Essentially I think that this may be the most convenient way of getting software to / from my A4000 without buying a network card.  

I've had a look on Amiga Kit and can't really see anything that would do what I need.  Any ideas?  

Thanks all

John

Title: Re: Front A4000 CF bay??
Post by: davideo on February 22, 2010, 02:32:20 PM

I got a backplate cf/ide adaptor of Evilbay for a couple of quid from China.

Works a treat and was very easy to do.

Only inconvinience is that it's at the back of the 4000D but as I only want to swap stuff now and again it's not too bad.

Dave G :cool:

Title: Re: Front A4000 CF bay??
Post by: Thomas on February 22, 2010, 02:35:10 PM

Something like this perhaps: http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/adidecf.asp

Title: Re: Front A4000 CF bay??
Post by: koshman on February 22, 2010, 02:47:57 PM

What about this: http://cgi.ebay.com/COMPACT-FLASH-BAY-for-Amiga-4000_W0QQitemZ220534674702QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3358e4150e

Title: Re: Front A4000 CF bay??
Post by: delshay on February 22, 2010, 03:05:49 PM

i don`t know why no ones tryed the SCSI to PCMCIA iv used it and it works fine,it may not be as fast as CF on a IDE bus,but its more flexable.

i have dual slots so i can transfer data between two CF cards,but it also has a advantage of HOT SWAP.

do a search on EBAY for device which fits in floppy bay.


this is what my device can do.

it can be config as one SCSI id but shows LUN 0 and LUN1 (two CF cards)

or

it can be config to use two SCSI ID unit 0 and unit 1 (but can be config upto unit 7 using two SCSI ID).
it`s also bootable but iv never tested my unit with CF cards but it does support CF cards,iv only tested my unit with two microdrives.

Title: Re: Front A4000 CF bay??
Post by: koshman on February 22, 2010, 03:09:49 PM

Well, considering that he's asking about a solution for A4000D, which doesn't have SCSI built in, we naturally mentioned some IDE options. Btw, the solution I linked also supports 2 CF cards simultaneously.

Title: Re: Front A4000 CF bay??
Post by: skilgannon on February 22, 2010, 04:24:07 PM

Thanks guys - that's exactly what I'm after.  Unfortunately the guy on eBay seems only to ship to the US but I will email and ask him if he can ship to UK :)