A500 with IDE compact flash

[kamiga]

I've got an A500 with an IDE Dataflyer. I'd like to use an IDE to compact flash adapter.

I think a generic adapter will work, has anyone had luck with any specific vendor? StarTech? Order from newegg?

What did you do about power?

I would assume I need some type of mountlist entry or something for the OS(KS 3.0, WB 3.1) to recognize it. Are there examples someplace for different size cards?

Any generic card should work? 1 or 2GB would suffice for my stuff. Are these sizes ok?

Can I get a reasonable amount of usage off of a compact flash card in terms of the number of HD writes? Is it pretty easy to exceed the specs on the cards?

Thanks for any help

Keith

[Thomas]

If the dataflyer has autoboot capabilities, you can handle the CF card like a harddrive, no need for special drivers.

However, if you want to use the CF card to exchange data with a PC, you should better use a PC file system (for example CrossDOS or FAT95) and a mountlist so that the PC can read it.

You probably won't ever exceed the number of possible write cycles of a CF card in your life. Imagine that you have to write multiple tenthousand times to each single cell of the card in order to destroy it. Even if you save and delete a million files several times you won't ever reach this amount of data.

Bye,
Thomas

[kamiga]

Thomas,

Thanks for the reply.

Good idea to use crossdos. It's been almost 20 years since I have used it. And of course, on floppies.

I'll have to figure out how to setup a mountlist for a compact flash card. I haven't done this in awhile, but what the heck would I use for number of sectors, tracks, cylinders, etc etc etc Obvious when it's a harddrive, but what about CF?

Keith