Wanted 32MB or less hard drive

[RetroNinja]

Hello, I'm working a goofy project (adding XT drive to A2091) and I'm looking for a 32MB or less hard drive.

Note: MB not GB!

 

[fitzsteve]

Is that SCSI or IDE? And 40 or 44pin if IDE

 

[AlessandroBilbao]

Is that SCSI or IDE? And 40 or 44pin if IDE

40 pin scsi is 2,5" standard? 3,5" start from 50.

 

[RetroNinja]

I'm looking for an XT IDE drive. Form factor/size does not matter. My current test with a DOM IDE 32MB is not working. I think it' related to the driver though. If I can find an old HDD, I'd like to test against that.

 

[stachu100]

Why not to use CF + adapter:

10PCS 16MB Sandisk Compact Flash Card 16MB CF Memory card SDCFB | eBay

16MB Compact Flash card x 10. Would be greatly appreciated, if you do so.we will try our best to solve the problem.

www.ebay.com

 

[RetroNinja]

Why not to use CF + adapter:

10PCS 16MB Sandisk Compact Flash Card 16MB CF Memory card SDCFB | eBay

16MB Compact Flash card x 10. Would be greatly appreciated, if you do so.we will try our best to solve the problem.

www.ebay.com

Thanks, I did not think of that. I'll need to dig around in my old media box for a low end CF drive.

I do wonder if going XT >>> IDE/CF adapter >>> CF is going to be too much for the system to keep track of.

 

[fitzsteve]

Thanks, I did not think of that. I'll need to dig around in my old media box for a low end CF drive.

I do wonder if going XT >>> IDE/CF adapter >>> CF is going to be too much for the system to keep track of.

Actually CF-IDE is one of the best choices because it's the closest to true IDE, no extra chips like on SD devices

 

[Pior]

I have a 30mb 40 pin IDE and I PM you with the details

 

[Picard]

If you are looking XT drive it is NOT the same as today IDE hard drive. No CF or DOM or any other interface will work.
XT is the first 8bit interface and it is different that later AT (ATA) 16bit interface today known as IDE/PATA.
You must look for specifically XT drive. And there is no modern equivalent for that.
XT pinout is different than AT (IDE) pinout.
Here is the list of XT drives.

DOS Days - What was 8-bit XT-IDE or XTA?

website description

www.dosdays.co.uk

Also as you can check here

A2091 - Commodore

Big Book of Amiga Hardware - Probably the largest Amiga hardware reference on the net!

bigbookofamigahardware.com

The boot rom V7 and later of A2091 does not support XT.

 

[StrongARM]

In the early days there were winchester drives first, and they were heavy and HUGE....

I remember the first HDDs I've seen were about 20MB of storage. And they didn't have the old standard IDE/PATA connectors.