CF card as HD in an A2000?

[jlmjr1957]

I'm down to my last SCSI HD and it's starting to have problems. I know you can get adapters for a CF card as the HD in the later model machines, but do they make anything to fit into the older machines that are SCSI only?

Not sure if it makes a difference, but this machine has a GVP CPU/Ram/SCSI combo card in it that is where the HD is currently connected.

Thanks,

- JM

[Matt_H]

You'd need a SCSI to IDE adapter, then the IDE to CF converter should work as normal.

[Darrin]

I'm using a CF card adapter in my A2000 via a Buddha.  Works great and the Buddha seems to do a hell of a better job than my A1200 and A4000 CF adapters of detecting new CF Cards and prepping them.

[Fester]

I would second the buddha. It sure helped my 2000.

[pyrre]

I would second the buddha. It sure helped my 2000.

Are the buddhas still in production/sale?

[Fester]

I don't know. But I thought I purchased mine from Amigakit. I don't see any listed in their products atm.

[Xanxi]

Using an expensive adapter (more than 80 EUR) such as those SCSI to IDE is a non sense in this case. If you have SCSI, it's better to use a fast SCSI drive.
If you have IDE (Buddha or other), it makes sense to have a tiny and silent CF card, even if you will get poor speed from it.

[AmigaEd]

it makes sense to have a tiny and silent CF card, even if you will get poor speed from it.

I'm just not sure that I fully understand the point of this? I do see some reasons that make the CF nice especially if you want to move it back and forth between machines, but even if I took the loudest IDE hard drive that I have and put it inside of any one of the A2000 machines that I have, I would still never hear it over the noise of the power supply cooling fan and the floppy drive clicking.

[johnklos]

Unless you buy a slow CF card, most will be faster than the GVP bus.

Sure, you can buy SCSI to IDE adapters for 80 euros and up, but why would you do that when you can buy lots of different kinds for $40 USD or less? The most common kind I have, for instance, is the Acard 7726Q. The SCSI side is 160 MB/sec UltraWide SCSI and it won't work with narrow or non-Ultra SCSI unless you get a wide single-ended terminator and a wide-to-narrow adapter. But getting these still gives you a price that's much less than 80 euro.

[mbrantley]

I have a Deneb USB controller in my 2000/060, and I'm booting and running the whole system from a USB memory stick. I, too, have suffered through failing SCSI hard drives.