Buddha 2018

[mechy]

Yeah, and it's all just nonsense. I am telling you as someone who due to  guarantees and support agreements have had to use so called industrial CF and SD cards in various equipment. All experience says it's better, safer, cheaper and more convenient to use off-the-shelf SanDisk cards rather than whatever they ship as "industrial" cards to their OEM partners.

The reason he recommends industrial cards is because all industrial cf's are set to fixed disk mode. the old buddha(and idefix iirc) had problems with non fixed disk cards,which is why he did the true ide thing.

Industrial flash use SLC flash while most other consumer/commercial cards use MLC.

[mechy]

That's some time ago, though. MLC has evolved with consumer product demands, lots of testing and usage by the millions, today there is eMLC (e as in "enterprise") and TLC too flying around. What matters though, is what works, for how long, and how it fails, and it seems to me that many so called "industry" cards are (if not were) rebranded cheap-skate cards.

true,  i just use standard sandisk ultra or extreme cards in every amiga i own,none have failed to this day.
likely if they just rebranded a cheap card it wouldn't be set to fixed disk mode,removable instead but im sure it happens. some older SBC's i used wouldn't see removable cards on their ide but worked with fixed disk industrial transcend cards for example. mileage varies. there used to be a utility to change some brand cards from removable to fixed mode.

[mechy]

I buy all my sandisk cards from B&Hphoto video or adorama,been getting them there for 15+yrs and never a problem with a single card. i Use cf's in all my amigas (but the 4k with ssd) and have set up hundreds of machines over the years for people with no one reporting any problems.

[mechy]

motherboard jumpers need to be changed back to use the internal 030 on the A3000.