SD-Floppy adaptor ... Amiga device drivers ???

[Hodgkinson]

Has anyone ever tried to make a driver for one of these?

http://www.fujifilm.com/products/digital/download/10/

If drivers existed for this device, this would be a really useful way of transferring large files and images between a PC and the Amiga without the need for networking or USB; albeit perhaps a bit slow.

My guesswork says that this device works by positioning the R/W heads of the floppy drive above similar heads in the "Floppy" and simply using the floppy drive as a means to communicate to the SD-Card.

Hodgkinson.

[bloodline]

What a horribly complex device!!! :-o

Let the floppy drive die ... instead a better idea would be an SD-Card reader that replaces the mechanical disk drive, and plugs directly into the Disk Drive cable :-)

[Oli_hd]

That aint an SD card!
Its smart media which was one of the first flash media's made. No such thing exists for SD cards or any other formats.

I have a SD card to IDE adaptor off ebay that works very well with the Amiga (doesnt support hot swapping though) which I am currently booting different OS's off (3.9 at the mo), thats probably the best route.

[oddmario]

Wrong!
Sony made one for Memory Stick cards.
And Sandisk made for SD.

"No such thing exists for SD cards or any other formats."

[Oli_hd]

Hmm seems there is one for the Sony Memory stick, cant find the Sandisk one though, got a link?

Best I could find was: Amazon link to a Sandisk Smartmedia adaptor

Ahh feck there is such a thing.
Technically its MMC not SD but mehh.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200190796017

[oddmario]

My bad.
Made by Apacer, not Sandisk.

[Oli_hd]

My bad.  Made by Apacer, not Sandisk.

Link?
/me wonders back to google and starts looking.

[oddmario]

Don't have.
Found them at work last year.
If they still are there i'll post a pic.

[Hodgkinson]

Yeah, OK, smart media then :-) My mistake

The adaptor itself is an interesting solution to allowing memory cards to work on a computer without taking the case off or having working USB.

Still think it would be nice to have one of these working on a miggy, though.

[Jeff_HxC]

Let the floppy drive die ... instead a better idea would be an SD-Card reader that replaces the mechanical disk drive, and plugs directly into the Disk Drive cable

this already exist :
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[alexh]

If any developer who has worked on these homebrew "floppy disk emulators" is interested in working together to bring one of these to the market I feel they could be made commercially viable.

Especially if it targetted towards multiple platforms (Amiga, AtariST, Spectrum, C64, CPC, BBC etc.) and includes support for protected disk formats.

I would certainly be interested in offering technical and hardware assistance, together with commercial expertise and manufacturing contacts on how to turn this into a real, saleable product.

I have many ideas in this area which could reduce the BOM considerably and improve usability.

[monami]

please get together guys. i hate to see these projects go nowhere... they always seem to get half finished then just die. :-(

[metalman]

bloodline wrote:
What a horribly complex device!!! :-o

Let the floppy drive die ... instead a better idea would be an SD-Card reader that replaces the mechanical disk drive, and plugs directly into the Disk Drive cable :-)

Addonics SD to IDE Adapters

Addonics flash memory readers

Do these type devices exist for SCSI?

[cv643d]

Can you buy "this" anywhere?

[ZeBeeDee]

cv643d wrote:
Can you buy "this" anywhere?

It seems that it may be a possibility to purchase this or something like it in the future should, as alexh said earlier and I quote ...

alexh wrote:
I would certainly be interested in offering technical and hardware assistance, together with commercial expertise and manufacturing contacts on how to turn this into a real, saleable product.

I have many ideas in this area which could reduce the BOM considerably and improve usability.