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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Sundance2022 on May 30, 2025, 03:52:32 AM
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Is there an adapter that will allow me to use a CF card in the GVP A500-HD+ instead of a HDD? Or would it be best to stick with a SCSI HDD?
I have been out of the Amiga scene for a while, what would be the best drive and size and can I still buy? I'm getting my Amiga stuff ready to sell.
Thanks
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If you want to use a CF card specifically, you need an Acard SCSIDE bridge and then an IDE to CF adapter. This works fine and I used to run systems like this myself. However the Acard bridges are a bit difficult and expensive to source in 2025.
On the other hand, if using an SD card is acceptable, there are BlueSCSI and ZuluSCSI emulators available for less than the Acard would set you back. There is also the SCSI2SD, but it is a bit more cumbersome to use.
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@Jope
How is SCSI2SD more cumbersome? The fact that you do the formatting/sector size stuff on a PC? Once that is done it's great! I much prefer it to work like a real disk rather than a disk image. I have been told the other controllers can work in that mode if tweaked. The SCSI2SD V6 model is faster than most other controllers and is barely noticeably slower than a spinning SCSI HD which is not the case with some of the others.