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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: TheGoose on September 26, 2010, 08:28:06 PM

Title: External SCSI to CF
Post by: TheGoose on September 26, 2010, 08:28:06 PM

Have you ever seen this before (not my sale (http://cgi.ebay.com/Amiga-2000-3000-External-compact-flash-2GB-OS3-1-/220585876230?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item335bf15b06)):


Just wondering, I would like to do this, but this way too much $

Title: Re: External SCSI to CF
Post by: scan_x on September 28, 2010, 06:04:59 AM

That makes me remember that:
http://cosmosamiga.blogspot.com/2010/09/acard-7720uw.html
SCSI->IDE->CF
But it seems there's compatibility issues with some CF cards.

Title: Re: External SCSI to CF
Post by: TheGoose on September 28, 2010, 01:54:43 PM

Hmm, that is still pretty useful for a regular IDE HD, getting more troublesome to find a trustworthy SCSI II 50pin HD these days.

Title: Re: External SCSI to CF
Post by: mechy on September 28, 2010, 04:19:12 PM

You can use just about any 68 or 80 pin hard drive with an adapter to 50 pins.. the adapters are cheap(~$5) and work fine.it works for scsi 3 -sca,ultrawide(u160,u320 etc).the drives and adapters are available on ebay usually.

Mike

Quote from: TheGoose;581732

Hmm, that is still pretty useful for a regular IDE HD, getting more troublesome to find a trustworthy SCSI II 50pin HD these days.

Title: Re: External SCSI to CF
Post by: TheGoose on September 29, 2010, 06:45:55 PM

Quote from: mechy;581749

You can use just about any 68 or 80 pin hard drive with an adapter to 50 pins.. the adapters are cheap(~$5) and work fine.it works for scsi 3 -sca,ultrawide(u160,u320 etc).the drives and adapters are available on ebay usually.

Mike

Yeah I did this with old Dell server drives (Cheetah drives). It worked for a while, but then then went dead. For these, I kinda wish I used OS3.5, for the updated scsi.device and large drive support.