CF to IDE adapter

[gklinger]

I took a leap of faith and ordered a pack of three generic IDE-CF adaptors and was lucky enough that they worked perfectly. I did run into a problem where I kept getting bad blocks on my 8GB SanDisk card so I installed the Smart Filesystem and everything seems to be working now. I guess I was asking for trouble with a 7+ GB partition with FFS.

[gklinger]

Thomas wrote:

Luckily you installed a very old version of SFS which still supports HD_SCSICMD with access to up to 7.8 GB without a patch to the underlying IDE driver (scsi.device).

Did I? I downloaded from here which I assume is the latest version. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Beware to upgrade to the latest version. It does no longer use HD_SCSICMD and all your big partitions will be broken.

Could you elaborate on this or point me to information on the subject.

[gklinger]

I need to apologize because I made a mistake in my earlier post. I came across John Hendrikx's site first and then found Joerg Strohmayer's site from which I downloaded and installed v1.277. It is working just fine with my < 4GB drive but I think that is because I'm running OS 3.9 which has NSDPatch built-in. Everything should be okay, right? Do you think I should upgrade to v1.279?

I want to thank you for your help and your patience. It is has been a long time since I did anything more interesting than playing a game with my Amiga so I'm encountering a bit of a learning curve.