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CFIDE68K microdrive vs CF memory card
« on: May 13, 2013, 12:13:39 AM »
Picked up another CFIDE68K card from Mikal and was trying to use an IBM 1Gb microdrive with it.

No joy!

Tried a CF memory card and it works perfectly!

Okay, tried a 340Mb microdrive.  No joy!

Ditto iomega 1Gb, IBM 512Mb, and a Hitachi 2Gb.

Tried 3 or 4 different adapters with same result.

Obviously, there is a difference between a Compact Flash Microdrive and a Compact Flash Memory card.

Can anyone explain to me how to get these to work?

I'm using an A500 with 3.1 ROM's trying to install 3.1.

Memory 2 Mb chip.  Will be dropping in a Kipper2 8Mb memory card also.

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Re: CFIDE68K microdrive vs CF memory card
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2013, 03:30:22 PM »
I'd pretty well decided to stick with the straight memory cards vice the microdrives.

Guess I'll be using the microdrives for the PC's.  They're not as fussy.
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Re: CFIDE68K microdrive vs CF memory card
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2013, 02:29:31 PM »
Oh, forgot to mention the CFIDE68K doesn't like normal IDE hard drives either!

Normal?
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