SCSI to CF adapter question

[blakespot]

I got one of these:

http://cgi.ebay.com/4GB-CF-Compact-Flash-IDE-SCSI-Amiga-2000-3000-4000-T_W0QQitemZ270525602123QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3efc95194b#ht_500wt_1182

SCIS to IDE / CF adapter.  Anyone have one?

Which way do the jumper directions apply, looking at it from the edge or from the board orientation?  Can someone give me their jumper settings?  Having massive issues.

Thanks.




blakespot

[Moto]

I have just the SCSI to IDE portion of that.  It was a pain to setup but I eventually got it working with an old IDE drive.   I ended up just hanging my CF card off my 4000T's IDE bus for the moment just to get the OS installed.  

What are you having trouble with?  The SCSI-to-IDE bridge or the CF to IDE adapter?

[johnklos]

I got one of these:

http://cgi.ebay.com/4GB-CF-Compact-Flash-IDE-SCSI-Amiga-2000-3000-4000-T_W0QQitemZ270525602123QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3efc95194b#ht_500wt_1182

SCIS to IDE / CF adapter.  Anyone have one?

Which way do the jumper directions apply, looking at it from the edge or from the board orientation?  Can someone give me their jumper settings?  Having massive issues.

The SCSI to IDE adapter is not an Acard, it appears. Who's the maker?

I've used various adapters in many situations, and the Acard works perfectly so long as the CF to IDE properly supports DMA (Addonics, for instance). Non-DMA ones will work fine with Amiga IDE, but slowly.

[countzero]

It's an R-IDSC. You can buy 10 for 100$. The whole package looks like a rip off to me.

[johnklos]

It's an R-IDSC. You can buy 10 for 100$. The whole package looks like a rip off to me.

http://www.synack.net/~bbraun/IDSC21-E_Jumper_Settings.pdf

[Damion]

J1 should be marked with a tiny arrow (lined up with the SCSI header). The docs show a J0 which doesn't exist on these adapters. My settings are for ID6, DMA, and termination ON. I had some trouble as well, turns out both adapters need to be powered. (With the Acards I'm used to, I don't power the CF adapters and everything works fine.)

1 OFF
2 ON  
3 ON
4 OFF
5 ON
6 OFF
7 ON
8 OFF
9 OFF

[Linde]

It's an R-IDSC. You can buy 10 for 100$. The whole package looks like a rip off to me.

Yeah, $70? I bet you can gather all the parts yourself for less than $20.

[jj]

People are always glad to hear they paid over the odds especially when can't get it working correctly.  Why do people do that ?

[Moto]

People are always glad to hear they paid over the odds especially when can't get it working correctly.  Why do people do that ?

Good question.  It wasn't like the OP asked "Did I spend too much on this ____?"  Seems to happen quite a bit here.   I guess some people just don't have anything constructive to say yet want attention.

@blakespot:  Let me know if you get it working and what settings you used.

[tone007]

People are always glad to hear they paid over the odds especially when can't get it working correctly.  Why do people do that ?

It doesn't help the original poster any, but in this case it might help someone who might be shopping for the same device who might otherwise have bought from the guy who's labelling a cheaply obtained device "Amiga" and making a profit on it.

[motrucker]

eBay can be a great place to find/pick up Amiga stuff  (http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=51660)  BUT you need to be very careful! There are some true snakes there...