PCMCIA SD Card Adapters for A1200... Any Specific One?

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Lads and lasses, apologies if this has been asked or covered before, but...

I wanted to get my paws on a PCMCIA adapter to transfer large files between the PC and Amiga (I'm still a horrific novice at this). Since I have piles of Sandisk Ultra SD cards lying around (photographer), I thought I'd use those instead of going the compact flash route. And since I'm currently exiled in America, I was hoping to snag something on Amazon (free 2 day shipping, have to love the Amazon Prime!) rather than wait the fortnight stuff usually takes from Europe.

Question I have tho is if I should be looking out for any specific brands (or avoiding specific brands) and making sure it has any specific technology? (As you can imagine, Amazon doesn't really focus on their use on an Amiga, and the ones I see on Amigakit and fleabay seem to be just generic unbranded Chinese ones?)

Cheers in advance.
 
I've tried a PCMCIA to SD (ATA) adapter, it didn't work as intended.
I didn't pursue it as I had plenty of CF cards and a CF to PCMCIA adapter.

if you're going to try, make sure it's a 16bit adapter as mine is a 32bit.
 
Meh lads. I just broke down and bought the transfer kit on Amibay, and ordered a CF card from Amazon along with a PC reader. Cheers for the input tho.
 
Tomse said:
I hope you bought a cheaper one than the link posted earlier.
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Haha, oh well crap. I ended up getting the adapter/floppy from Amigakit for $23 and some change including shipping. And since it's coming from Wales, it'll probably take as long as this would have.
 
The best PCMCIA SD card reader is NONE. SD cards are a pain in the back to read in the Amiga directly from the PCMCIA port.

All brands I tested (even one legit Sandisk) freezes the Amiga while it is inserted. Removing the card or the PCMCIA adaptor unfreezes the Amiga.

Memory Sticks, MS-DUO and CF cards works perfectly on the PCMCIA. Just avoid cheap cards and everything would right.
 
i have a pcmcia SD adaptor in my 1200 with a 1GB SD card and it works perfectly.

keep the sd size small and you should be ok , i had issues with larger cards.

i think the SD is a transcend 1gb
 
I also had no problems using a small SD card in a multi-card pcmcia adapter around a year ago.
But so far I have not found a single PCMCIA adapter that supports SDHC cards (4-32GB).
All the SDHC compatible adapters I have found are 32bit Cardbus, not 16bit PCMCIA.
 
Maybe all 1Gb units I have are SDHC, then. Too funny because they might be not.
 
In case anyone still wanted one, I use these with my A1200s and A600s, they work perfectly with all of the SD cards I have tried. They don't work with SDHC though, so you're limited to 2GB per card.

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http://www.suntekstore.com/goods-10...pter_card_reader_for_sm_ms_ms_pro_sd_mmc.html
 
Moya, that's exactly the same adaptor I'm using, but it only accept memory stick, MS DUO & MMC cards.

Every micro-SD (from 128Mb to 4Gb, Sandisk units included) and regular SD (1 & 2Gb in sizes) I tried freezes the Amiga while the card is inserted.
 
I also have the same one as pictured above and I have the same freezing problem as rkauer mentions.

Tried SD, SDHC, MiniSD, MicroSD & MicroSDHC (various capacities all correctly formatted).

Maybe a quality control issue at the manufacturers?
 
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Only minimally relevant

Do not have an A1200, but use up to 16gb on Mechs SCSI CARD reader on both an A2000 and an A4000. No issue with SD cards except awful slow speed; a backup of 4Gb takes 6 hours or more. Have booted from them in OS 1.3 and 3.1, but overall CF cards work best. Mech sells adapters too, just ask; he has tons of experience with solid state storage
 
I'm not sure why they cause lockups on other peoples systems. Do you have both CardPatch and CardReset from Aminet installed? I always install these patches along with Fat95 and CompactFlash.device at the same time on the Amiga systems I've used, and I have used these cards on several A1200s and A600s. I have two of them and they both work, although one of them requires that I re-insert the whole adapter each time I swap a SD card or the Amiga won't detect it, while the other one always detects card changes.

I suppose there must be a quality control issue, I thought there might be since they were so cheap at the time so I bought three. I never tested the third one, it was used as a prize in one of my failed Amiga Game Making Competitions.
 
hi also have a check on your pins in pcmcia slot for being bent or missing
 
Rkauer and Magno Boots:

Are you using the latest version 1.27 of compactflash.device?
Some older versions (at least v1.21) freeze upon insertion/mounting with certain cards. [two examples]
Type version compactflash.device in shell to check..
 
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