CF to IDE adapter

[rja4096]

Hi will  this work to connect my CF card and use as an internal HDD?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CF-to-2-5-44-Pin-IDE-hard-drive-adapter-card-HDD-in-UK_W0QQitemZ290245052005QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item290245052005


Thanks, rick

[motorollin]

Yes.

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moto

[CLS2086]

Maybe !
it depends much more on your CF card compatibility !  :rtfm:
there were thread about that

[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.

[Thomas]

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).

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

Bye,
Thomas

[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.

[Thomas]

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

John Hendrikx stopped developing SFS long ago and gave the project to Joerg Strohmayer. The latest versions are available here: http://strohmayer.org/sfs/

Or on Aminet: http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/SFS

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

Normally AmigaOS can access only the first 4GB of a drive. Not single bit more. If you create partitions outside the first 4GB of a HDD you risk complete data loss.

With HD_SCSICMD you can send SCSI commands to the device and with this method you can theoretically access up to 2 TB (even more if the drive uses more then 512 bytes per sector). In the case of the IDE driver (called scsi.device for funny reasons), the limit is 7.8 GB, even with HD_SCSICMD, because the driver does not allow to use more than that.

While John Hendrikx maintained HD_SCSICMD support in SFS, Joerg Strohmayer removed it completely. So do not upgrade your version of SFS.

To make sure that all your partitions can be accessed safely before writing data to them, you can use Check4GB. http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/check4gb

Bye,
Thomas

[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.

[rja4096]

- Umm, well I got the adapter from ebay - but it does not recognice with my Cf card - when I use HDToolbox - I get the error 'not a type 7'. Guess I have the wrong CF card - does anyone have a link to a type that works as a HDD?

Cheers, rick.

[rja4096]

- Umm, well I got the adapter from ebay - but it does not recognice with my Cf card - when I use HDToolbox - I get the error 'not a type 7'. Guess I have the wrong CF card - does anyone have a link to a type that works as a HDD?

Cheers, rick.

[ZeBeeDee]

Have you read and followed the tutorial?

Link