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Offline Matt_HTopic starter

What's everyone using for CF->IDE adapters these days?
« on: June 08, 2014, 04:46:17 PM »
I use these things on a number of my Amigas as a hard drive solution. Unfortunately, they seem to be discontinued and I need some more of them.

Basically, I'm looking for something that's the size of a normal hard drive so that I can mount it in a regular drive bay. Most of the adapters I'm seeing like that are actually 2-card adapters, like this. Does anyone have experience with these kinds of adapters? Will it work if I also have a CD drive on the IDE bus? This is for a stock 3.1 system - I'd like to not have to use IDEfix.

Thanks!
 

Offline Matt_HTopic starter

Re: What's everyone using for CF->IDE adapters these days?
« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2014, 03:34:56 AM »
Quote from: freqmax;765981
Check two things:
1) How does it handle master + slave? will it occupy the slave position regardless if it's used elsewhere? Otoh, some creative re-routed P-ATA pins could solve it.
2) How is termination dealt with? signal path stubs are bad news.


Thanks, I was thinking that this would be the sort of thing to keep an eye out for. Any idea how I might be able to determine these things, either from a product description or looking at a board (jumpers or such)?

@ Honkybear

Ah, thanks for the suggestion, but this is for an A4000, so Kipper's adapters won't work in this situation.