Amiga.org

Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: iowtheme on March 22, 2010, 01:25:44 PM

Title: FlashDisk Memory Card for the A1200 help
Post by: iowtheme on March 22, 2010, 01:25:44 PM
Hi All
 
 
I have 440MB San Disk ATA PCMCIA FlashDisk Memory Card genuine
 
will this work with the A1200 in the PCMCIA?????
 
http://i.ebayimg.com/11/!BmsYoCwCGk~$(KGrHqQOKjIEtlDYHf4IBLgf)ktszw~~_35.JPG this is the 256Mb
 
 
And I have old 3Com Etherlink III PCMCIA Cardbus Network 3C589D will this work with the A1200 ?????
http://i8.ebayimg.com/01/i/000/fd/fe/98b0_2.JPG
 
Thank All
Title: Re: FlashDisk Memory Card for the A1200 help
Post by: SamuraiCrow on March 22, 2010, 01:44:29 PM
I think if it says "Cardbus" on it it uses a 32-bit PCMCIA slot.  The A1200 has a 16-bit PCMCIA slot so it won't work.
Title: Re: FlashDisk Memory Card for the A1200 help
Post by: Cammy on March 22, 2010, 02:06:24 PM
I don't think those FlashDisk cards will work, but you can get cheap PCMCIA Multi-Card adapters and use 2GB SD cards for storage - http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.23720 or PCMCIA CF adapters - http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.23791 which are handy for swapping files between Amigas and PCs, or you can get 2MB of SRAM which will actually slow your A1200 down a bit, but it will add 2MB Fastmem (it's not fast though) if you don't have a RAM card or accelerator - http://www.memoryx.net/bgz.html

That Etherlink III card is the same as mine, if it's the exact model you say then it's 16bit PCMCIA, not Cardbus, so it should work! Here's a photo of my A1200 browsing Amiga.org with this card - http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=3152

The driver for the PCMCIA card adapters is here - http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/cfd
The driver for the PCMCIA ethernet cards is here - http://aminet.net/package/driver/net/3c589
Fat16/32 filesystem for reading CF/SD cards - http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/fat95
Title: Re: FlashDisk Memory Card for the A1200 help
Post by: iowtheme on March 22, 2010, 02:21:08 PM
Thank Cammy
 
Now Add my Card
 
http://www.2e0zak.co.uk/a/Dscf6595.jpg
 
http://www.2e0zak.co.uk/a/Dscf6593.jpg
 
thank