What's everyone using for CF->IDE adapters these days?

[Matt_H]

I use these things on a number of my Amigas as a hard drive solution. Unfortunately, they seem to be discontinued and I need some more of them.

Basically, I'm looking for something that's the size of a normal hard drive so that I can mount it in a regular drive bay. Most of the adapters I'm seeing like that are actually 2-card adapters, like this. Does anyone have experience with these kinds of adapters? Will it work if I also have a CD drive on the IDE bus? This is for a stock 3.1 system - I'd like to not have to use IDEfix.

Thanks!

[danwood]

I just use generic adapters off eBay, loads on there for under 5 euro.

[XDelusion]

I use a George Foreman grill with my Amiga. Other than that "most" generic China CF adapters work well. Some SD one's even work!

[Lurch]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Random-One-Laptop-PC-44-Pin-2-5-IDE-Male-Connector-HDD-To-CF-Card-Adapter-/131191656925?pt=US_Memory_Card_Readers_Adapters&hash=item1e8ba1d1dd

[lionstorm]

what about using DOM (disk on module) ?
easier to setup, no adapter, plug directly to the IDE port, small, silent...
the only drawback is maybe the capacity : more means higher price.
I bought one for my A1200 here and I am very happy with !

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/sis.html?_nkw=NEW%20FLASH%20DOM%20Disk%20On%20Module%204GB%2044PIN%20IDE%20PATA%20SSD&_itemId=290472093122

[freqmax]

Check two things:
1) How does it handle master + slave? will it occupy the slave position regardless if it's used elsewhere? Otoh, some creative re-routed P-ATA pins could solve it.
2) How is termination dealt with? signal path stubs are bad news.

Regarding master/slave there's also the "cable select mode" which is however rarely used. The ATA standards is a piece of a really bad example of engineering on what not to do. Guess why Commodore choosed SCSI

[Honkybear]

http://kipper2k.com/amigaforsale/

I use the Internal in retrospect I probably would should have gone with the External either way I'm very happy with the design and quality. I know he's been busy with a lot of other stuff recently so I'm not sure what he has.

[klx300r]

http://kipper2k.com/amigaforsale/

I use the Internal in retrospect I probably would should have gone with the External either way I'm very happy with the design and quality. I know he's been busy with a lot of other stuff recently so I'm not sure what he has.

+ 1, awesome quality of everything he makes & he's a good guy to deal with too

[Honkybear]

+ 1, awesome quality of everything he makes & he's a good guy to deal with too

I couldn't agree more.

[Matt_H]

Check two things:
1) How does it handle master + slave? will it occupy the slave position regardless if it's used elsewhere? Otoh, some creative re-routed P-ATA pins could solve it.
2) How is termination dealt with? signal path stubs are bad news.

Thanks, I was thinking that this would be the sort of thing to keep an eye out for. Any idea how I might be able to determine these things, either from a product description or looking at a board (jumpers or such)?

@ Honkybear

Ah, thanks for the suggestion, but this is for an A4000, so Kipper's adapters won't work in this situation.

[gertsy]

Never tried those DOM units: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Kingspec-4G-Disk-40PIN-IDE-PATA-MLC-4GB-SSD-DOM-Module-Network-PC-Gaming-/121361249258?pt=UK_Computing_Solid_State_Drives&hash=item1c41b1b3ea
They require separate power though yeah?  And can you get the cables for them?

Look very discrete/elegant otherwise.

[pyrre]

I use these things on a number of my Amigas as a hard drive solution. Unfortunately, they seem to be discontinued and I need some more of them.

Basically, I'm looking for something that's the size of a normal hard drive so that I can mount it in a regular drive bay. Most of the adapters I'm seeing like that are actually 2-card adapters, like this. Does anyone have experience with these kinds of adapters? Will it work if I also have a CD drive on the IDE bus? This is for a stock 3.1 system - I'd like to not have to use IDEfix.

Thanks!

Deal extreme.....
MANY ebayers purchase these from DX and sell them on ebay for quite a profit...