IDE Compact Flash on A4000 initial review

[Dr_Righteous]

Dagon wrote:
So you just plug the IDE2CF and sees it like an HD?
You just format it and make it bootable from the HDToolBox?

Yes... S'how I did it :-D

The Kickflash OS4 (from individual computers) does the same thing? what`s the difference and why should I choose one instead of the other? (Kickflash OS4 is needed to install 4.0 on my A4000?)

Kickflash is a ROM switcher, not a drive... That and AFAIK Jens hasn't released Kickflash to the public yet.

Can I do the same thing with an ALGOR? Boot AmigaOS 3.9 from a memory USB stick?

In order for USB devices to work, the drivers have to be loaded by the OS first, so I don't think that'll work... Unless of course someone comes out with a hacked Kickstart ROM that covers this.

[Framiga]

by Terminills on 2003/6/21 1:24:39

@Framiga


Look at the dos version.

yes i've read it but . . .i've read the FAQ also.

seems that there are problems with hot-swapping, so you must install a Win specific utility.

However . . . i like that drive :-D

Ciao

[Terminills]

@Framiga

I had mentioned earlier the drivers may have to do with the hot swapping...   However it's a very nice system and who knows maybe the zip100 drivers will work for the hot swap..    :-D

[amigamad]

Nice one i have still not tried mine i will sometime, i have just got back from holiday and have quite a few things to play with including my amigaone g4 xe . :-D

[keltic]

cecilia wrote:

keltic wrote:
I think i will order one or two of theese babies.

looks interestng!
and completely OFFtopic: where did you get the picture of the babe in your AV? :-D

I have no idea  ;-)

[olegil]

Matt_H wrote:

I've seen PCMCIA to Compact Flash adapters. Could those work with A1200s? How about A600s? For booting off of??

Yeah. They work. I tried it out yesterday  :-)  You need a soft driver for them though (cfd.lha from Aminet), so they're not bootable. Commodore's device can recognize the cards, but it thinks they're write-protected and can't do anything with them.

What I'm planning to do is create a Kick floppy to load the driver, and then reassign and boot the system from PCMCIA.

Uhm, I can see the cfd.lha in the back2roots aminet interface, but the link is invalid. I can't find it on the regular aminet interface...

What gives? File deleted?

Edit: found it on another mirror. So much for the "full mirror" theory ;-)

[Crumb]

"In order for USB devices to work, the drivers have to be loaded by the OS first, so I don't think that'll work... Unless of course someone comes out with a hacked Kickstart ROM that covers this."

The Algor has a flashrom to store Poseidon and its classes, there's no need to burn new kickstart roms :-)

I haven't tested it but I know that it automounts USB memory units... I'm not sure if they can be made bootable, etc...