Anyone got one of these?

[-Acid-]

I'm looking at one of these adapters on ebay

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271093347493

Can anyone tell me if it will be okay in my A1200 tower? I've noticed a lot on the 40pin adapters they have a power socket, do they need to be powered from the psu?

Also does anyone know if they will allow me to use cards that the cheap adapters will not? (when hdtoolbox says it is not a fixed disk). I want to use it like a card reader if it works so I won't have to keep opening my tower up to insert/remove a cf card.

 

[Allen1]

The 40 pin adapters do require 5 volts from your PSU, its easier to find and use the floppy drive connectors with the 5 and 12 volt plus ground hence the connector that is fitted to the board. The 12 volts isn't used but using the standard cable keeps things neat. On the 44 pin IDE connector the required 5 Volts is provided on one of the extra pins so there is no need for extra cables.

Remember if you are going to use this sort of thing for transferring files, you have to switch off the Amiga while adding or removing a CF card or you will damage your IDE port and your machine is useless unless you want to load everything from floppies!

 

[Amigafanboi]

I had one and it worked well in my 1200 tower but as Allen said you have to power of to change cards.

 

[bitcpy]

You need to give the card power otherwise it wont work.

Based on the first line in the auction, it supports all types of cards. I havent purchased this exact model but it should be fine.

 

[johnim]

yes they do work I have 1 mines 5v


but as already. mentioned your might must be turned off when inserting or removing

 

[-Acid-]

Hmm the guy on ebay says some cards will still have the not a fixed disk problem so it doesnt solve that. Think I will give this one a miss, thanks for the advice.

 

[rkauer]

To solve the removable issue you can buy a TrueIDE from Vesalia (it is a CF fixer made from Individual Computers and only available for sale in Vesalia).

 

[-Acid-]

To solve the removable issue you can buy a TrueIDE from Vesalia (it is a CF fixer made from Individual Computers and only available for sale in Vesalia).

Yes but £32 for a what is essentially a CF adapter? I'd rather buy a few good CF cards for half the price and bin/sell the ones I have that don't work. It's a good product but grossly overpriced for what it does imo.

 

[Balooga]

To solve the removable issue you can buy a TrueIDE from Vesalia (it is a CF fixer made from Individual Computers and only available for sale in Vesalia).

Yes but £32 for a what is essentially a CF adapter? I'd rather buy a few good CF cards for half the price and bin/sell the ones I have that don't work.

Or, get a 4GB SSD DOM.

 

[mjnurney]

I used on in my a4000 before with no issues

 

[johnim]

heres a china located version

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CF-UDMA-c...337?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item337d7ed1c9

 

[woodycool]

heres a china located version

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CF-UDMA-c...337?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item337d7ed1c9

That's the version I've got.
I ordered 3 of them but only have 1 left now.

 

[-Acid-]

Will that one have the same problems with some cards as other cheap adapters? (I'm guessing so). For the power these cards require is a floppy drive connector all you need or does it need to be wired up differently?

 

[johnim]

floppy power mate I use Sandisk with mine and used a microdrive

 

[-Acid-]

Might have to order a chinese version then, it will only be used every now and then for some file transfers.

 

[BLTCON0]

Will that one have the same problems with some cards as other cheap adapters? (I'm guessing so).

You guess right. But technically it's not a problem of the adapter, IIRC CF cards can (or can't) support operation in two or three modes, one of them being "IDE" which must be supported by the card itself if it is to work straight off an IDE controller (which is what these cheap adapters allow for).

For the power these cards require is a floppy drive connector all you need or does it need to be wired up differently?

Plain old floppy power connector

 

[-Acid-]

Another question on these, will the Amiga boot without delay if a card is not inserted into the adapter or will it spend ages looking for it like it does if the floppy drive isn't connected?

 

[rkauer]

Depends on the kickstart version: 2.0x and 3.0 will boot into the animation screen almost instantly if no drive is hooked in the IDE connector.

3.1 kickstart will wait 30 to 40s waiting for a HD that might be or not in there.