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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: runequester on April 10, 2011, 04:12:27 AM

Title: Best brand of CF cards to use for amiga hard drives?
Post by: runequester on April 10, 2011, 04:12:27 AM
Want to pick up a spare or two, just in case, but what types have people had success with?

I already have the CF adapter amigakit sells, but if I can find different brands that I can find locally, that'd be great too.
Title: Re: Best brand of CF cards to use for amiga hard drives?
Post by: Cammy on April 10, 2011, 05:05:26 AM
I've had bad luck with a few brands of CF cards, usually the problems aren't immediately obvious but these cards are definitely unreliable and I would never use anything other than SanDisk CF cards now, which have worked perfectly for me every time, and I think I have probably prepared, formatted and installed Workbench on at least fifteen CF cards for about eight different Amigas over the years.

I think the perfect cards to get are either a 4GB or 8GB SanDisk Ultra II. Just patch scsi.device and use SFS if you use a 8GB card.
Title: Re: Best brand of CF cards to use for amiga hard drives?
Post by: magnetic on April 10, 2011, 05:10:38 AM
Hey rune

I've been using a SanDisk 1gb first gen working perfectly and a Kingston 4g on another amiga... 100 per cent perfect!
Title: Re: Best brand of CF cards to use for amiga hard drives?
Post by: magnetic on April 10, 2011, 05:11:14 AM
Hey rune

I've been using a SanDisk 1gb first gen working perfectly and a Kingston 4g on another amiga... 100 per cent perfect!
Title: Re: Best brand of CF cards to use for amiga hard drives?
Post by: runequester on April 10, 2011, 05:28:24 AM
From you two thats good enough :) I'll go rock some sandisk cards then.
Title: Re: Best brand of CF cards to use for amiga hard drives?
Post by: RobertB on April 10, 2011, 06:02:19 AM
Micro Center 4 gig CF cards at $18 each are what I use.

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