CHEAP SD to IDE Tower Slot Adaptor

[PanterHZ]

I notice that none of these cards have a master/slave jumper, which means they are probably cable select only. This in turn means that they might work in an Amiga, but only with the one card attached to the IDE cable.

[PanterHZ]

The cable select functionality will still use a master/slave setup, but instead of a jumper, it's the connector of the IDE cable used which determines if the device should be master or slave (hence the name "cable select").

The problem is that cable select really isn't supported on the Amiga, and it will get confused if there are two devices attached to the IDE cable, where at least one of them is set up to be cs. Another type of device which have this kind of problems, is slimline IDE CD-ROM drives made in the later years.

My guess is that cable select is something that was added to the IDE standard some years after the A1200 was released.

And yes, setting up these type of cards can really be a PITA sometimes

[PanterHZ]

I really recommend this since it has dip for master slave setting. and i can verify it works quite nice in my a1200, together with a cd-rom drive. sometimes they can be a pain to set up. but os 3.9 hdtoolbox have allways found it on my a1200.

The fun part is to put it inside a pc afterwards and use it in UAE...

It is adapters of this kind I have had most success with as well. Even the 40 pin dual card versions has worked fine for me, and I currently have one in each of my A1200's. 44 pin dual card adapters on the other hand, was more problematic. Here only one card, or none of them would show up in HDToolBox.