IDE ATA to CF Compact Flash Internal Memory Card Reader as Amiga Hard Drive

[smerf]

Hi,

Just wanted to let you all know that I purchased one of these and installed it into my amiga 4000. Worked great, you have to fiddle around with HardDisk toolbox in order to get the Amiga to see it but it does work. Here is the title and it only costs .99 cents, it allows you to use a compact flash for a hard disk, the Amiga even boots off of it.

IDE ATA to CF Compact Flash Internal Memory Card Reader

For more details go to ebay and search for the line above.

I bought mine from a dealer called pointingmouse, the reason I am telling you this is because I know it works. Just remember you have to treat it just like a new unformated hard drive.

smerf

[smerf]

Hi,

@Firedawg,

Ok, is that connected to an IDE port, or is that somehow built in to the motherboard. Do you have the new media board?

I thought that finding that IDE board for CF,s was pretty entertaining, just watching the old miggy load up off of it was a trip, it even loads faster off the CF than it does off the harddrive. Makes me want to do more with the old A4000. Wish someone out there would start making new PPC boards for the Amiga, but if they do they will probably want over top dollar.

[smerf]

Hi,

@Firedawg

Well I thought I had found something new for the Amiga, guess I am just a little bit late. Any how nice photo. I believe I see a 4 way ide card there. I could be wrong, it has been a long time since I looked at any of my Amiga's. I am starting to think about building my A1200 up, my friend was throwing out an old burned up A1200 and a real old Amiga 1200 that still worked, he has bought a new Apple with Leopard on it (nice) well the one that burned up had an old Blizzard in it with a 206 mhz ppc chip, well the A1200 that worked would run off the floppy but not the hard drive, so I took a chance and put the Blizzard ppc in my A1200, it worked like a champ, just hope it doesn't burn up MY A1200. Now I am thinking of getting one of these CF adapter's for this A1200, and then getting a mediator board and just want to see how far I can take this Amiga 1200, may even try to buy OS4 for it. The Amiga has gone from the latest and greatest to just about the extinct, only expermimenters using it now to see just how far they can take it.

smerf