pcmcia microdrives

[leirbag28]

Yes........they work perfectly. Just get Fat95.lha and cfd.lha from Aminet, and you should be good to go.

I have tried them myself.  Get a Compact flash to PCMCIA adaptor of course....and make sure Microdrives fit in it....as Micro drives are thicker than Compact flash.

[leirbag28]

@caddy

Yes.I am talking about Amigas.........you have to format it in  a PC compatible filesystem even to use between Amigas......trust me, you will be happy for doing this as it will be a universal card.

get Fat95.lha and cfd.lha

I do not think you can format it with  FFS as its not a standard PCMCIA SDRAM card..........And NO you do NOT need an extension to fit it in the Amiga.......just a normal Compact Flash to PCMCIA adaptor that fits Microdrive as well.

the Fat95 formatted Microdrive will be seen immediately by workbench..its a no brainer no hassle.

You will not be able to boot from it by the way......unless you connect it to the IDE port via an IDE to Compact flash adaptor. Then you can actually format it in FFS as a normal IDE drive. But you dont want that, as you want it to swap files.

[leirbag28]

@XDelusion

Wow thanks for that link!  I have the SAME exact card!  except mine is 2 gig...I payed $200 for it about 2 years ago!  man I feel bad...cuz that one is 5 gig and is only $59  

Anyway YES PCMCIA harddrives also work on the Amiga.....except it will NOT work on th A1200 right off he bat.....I thik you have to have that PCMCIA reset fix for those PCMCIA Harddrives to work on the A1200.  It will NOT work on my A1200 but it DOES work on the A600.  I have tons of stuff backed up.

The only thing is, these PCMCIA Hardrives are Extremely slow! because of he moving parts.....compact flash is much faster.

Nevertheless....a 4gig Compact flash will run about $350 !!!
So if you need the space, go for that Toshiba card. I use it for Music 8svx and Mods for Hippoplayer. I record IFF (8svx)  Songs ay 19khz or above. My version of MP3's :-D

The PCMCIA Type 3 might also work if you get an extender.....but I dont know that for sure.

I wll post a link or the Compact Flash to PCMCA adaptor. They are identical to regular CF to PCMCIA adaptors, but with a sightly more open space to fit the fat part of the Microdrive.

Here is The Microdrive adaptor:
http://www.d-store.com/d-store/microtech/ibm_micro_drives.htm

(Notice the more open space for the microdrive to fit)


Here is a neat solution if you dont want to buy he adaptor:

http://www.camerahacker.com/CompactFlash/Type_II_to_Type_I/index.shtml