Unfortunately, due to Amiga and other expenses such as my Virgin Media broadband/TV/phone package, my social life has recently been in ruins. I'm hoping to find the cheapest and most suitable IDE CF setup, possibly buying them separately. This device is not only more expensive, but would take weeks instead of days to arrive here and may have customs charges as well.
Can anyone on here give me advice about the IDE to CF adaptors, the CF cards themselves, installing Workbench 3 and WHDload?
Adapter wise id say most will work without issues, here is one with free shipping for 1.29$.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/CF-to-44-Pin-Laptop-IDE-Hard-Drive-Adapter-bootable-/250790187941?pt=US_Drive_Cables_dapters&hash=item3a644293a5As far as CF card go I have had the best experience with SanDisk Ultra series cards, the 4GB SanDisk Ultra 30MB/s cards have worked flawless for many years on many Amigas, tho I use PATA SSD modules on my main Amigas nowdays.
So any 44-pin CF adapter and a SanDisk card will work great, I know lots of cards will work but since I have had problems with other brands I can only recommend what I myself have used the most.
As far as installation goes id say use a CF/USB reader for PC and set it all up in WinUAE since it will be fast and easy, I would recommend using ClassicWB
http://classicwb.abime.net/, unexpanded A1200 id go for ClassicWB 68K or Lite.
Instructions are available on the ClassicWB page.
When setting up the CF card in WinUAE you boot from a WB 3.1 install ADF and then go to HDTools then left click once on HD Tool Box then rightclick go to the top menu and press "Icons/Information" or A+I.
Then click on the line SCSI_Device_Name=scsi.device and change it to SCSI_Device_Name=uaehf.device and hit enter.
Now you can see and partition your drive in WinUAE.
When setting up your CF card dont forget to set max tranfer to 0x001FE00 and hit enter.
The rest is guided by ClassicWB etc.
Hope it will work out for you
