Closed Hard Drive & CF Card Setup Service

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Hi Nick,

I wouldn't recommend a large CF for your A4000, either go for a real IDE drive or look at SSD's

Here are some links to the Kingspec ones: (all China based unfortunately so slow delivery) price dosen't go up much with larger capacity either but check seller feedback, etc before buying. These are just a few I found at random...
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Awesome. I'll get an adapter right away.

Will this drive work okay?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/KingSpec-...Internal_Hard_Disk_Drives&hash=item43aff106f2

It might seem like overkill, but I really really REALLY love Deluxe Paint IV


Kind regards,
Nick

PS. I haven't got around to fitting the LEDs yet. They are on the to-do list.
 
Hi Nick, you need an IDE SSD not SATA unless you have a known working SATA-IDE bridge. I have one here but I didn't have much success setting it up!
 
nicholas.jj.taylor said:
fitzsteve said:
Hi Nick, you need an IDE SSD not SATA
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Gotcha. How about this one?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Kingspec-...K_Computing_HardDrives_RL&hash=item3cd1893c34

I'm not up on all the codes, but IDE springs out on the title.

...also, so does PATA.

A quick google revealed PATA to be the...
Pacific Asia Travel Association
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Yep that should do it, a little overkill for a Classic Amiga IMHO but if it makes you happy :)

TBH I would sink that money into an Accelerator with Fast Ram & SCSI, and then use a SCSI-IDE bridge for faster transfers.

Just double check that 128gb drives are supported by the Amiga's IDE device before you shell out the money, there are some threads at EAB regarding Large Disk Support but EAB is down at the moment (server maintenance)

You'll need to patch the scsi.device for large Disk support but it needs to be seen first by the Amiga for the patch to load!

All the best,

Steve.
 
fitzsteve said:
Yep that should do it, a little overkill for a Classic Amiga IMHO but if it makes you happy :)
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Hooray!!

fitzsteve said:
I would sink that money into an Accelerator with Fast Ram & SCSI, and then use a SCSI-IDE bridge for faster transfers.
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Okay, the plan is to get hold of a Cyberstorm 060 at some point. Either that or I may take the plunge into PPC, although I quite like the idea of going 060 first, and then PPC later. What will the transfers be like without SCSI? Will they be slower than the speed I have now with the 4GB Winchester type?

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Just double check that 128gb drives are supported by the Amiga's IDE device before you shell out the money, there are some threads at EAB regarding Large Disk Support but EAB is down at the moment (server maintenance)
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Will do. I think I remember up to 120GB being supported, but definitely worth double checking when EAB are back online. I hope they get back online. Seems like they are having issues with Debian.

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_File_System suggests that any size drive can be used, but the maximum partition size is 128GB. Wow! Is this true? Wow! Might possibly go for a few terabytes :lol: (I won't. Too expensive!)

fitzsteve said:
You'll need to patch the scsi.device for large Disk support but it needs to be seen first by the Amiga for the patch to load!
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Okay. By this I think you mean that the scsi.device patch needs to be located in the first 4GB of the disc so that the Amiga may view it. Am I right?

Kind regards,
Nick
 
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I now have a good stock of CF Cards, owing to the recent re-gen of interest I invested in some Transcend 133x CF's which I can offer at the same price of £19.99 inc setup + P&P

See post #1 for full T's & C's :thumbsup:

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hi steve:lol:

can you supply me a 4gig cf card plus cf adaptor(type a, that flashes the hd light) and cable please.:)

no need to prep it or anything its for a custom setup.


roy.
 
roy_bates said:
hi steve:lol:

can you supply me a 4gig cf card plus cf adaptor(type a, that flashes the hd light) and cable please.:)

no need to prep it or anything its for a custom setup.


roy.
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Hi Roy,

PM coming :)

All the best.

Steve.
 
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