CF Card as a method of transfer?

[runequester]

I dont know if its that bothersome. Put the CF card in a normal card reader, like what you'd use for SD cards and whatnot, then put it in the PCMCIA adapter on the amiga and boot it up.

It's no worse than swapping a USB stick between two computers.

[Tupin]

I'll probably get that backplane CF adapter. How do I format a real hard drive in WinUAE for use in an Amiga?

[drwho]

Is there a solution like this that can be used on the 500/2000?

[orange]

Is there a solution like this that can be used on the 500/2000?

well there are several IDE controllers for A500/2000.

[drwho]

well there are several IDE controllers for A500/2000.

What would be cool is a CF reader for the Amiga floppy interface. I swear I saw something like that before, but, I cant remember where.

[Thomas]

http://www.torlus.com/floppy/

[desiv]

http://www.torlus.com/floppy/

Not quite the same thing, but with a Windows program to place files inside of ADF files (You can do this with WinUAE, but something like HFVExplorer for the Mac is more what I am thinking..), you could accomplish file transfers that way..

There was someone on EAB who had come up with a rudimentary serial port/thumb drive adapter.  It used a USB controller that has a built in thumb drive/file system support and he wrote a simple interface for transferring files.  It was slow but it worked..

desiv

[Tupin]

Well, I got the adapter, but I cannot put it on the backplane as the power and IDE cables are too short...

[gertsy]

Cool, sounds like CF is the way to go. As for the disk program, I want to take .adf files and unpack them on the Amiga and copy them back onto the CF card or a floppy.

Also, a newbie question: how do I check the specs of my machine? Like RAM, hard drive space, etc. Thanks.

Use the Sysinfo Icon from the workbench system disk or your system drive.