Anyone tried a CF-to-IDE adapter on RC2014? CF Card Source?

[Mike, K8LH]

As the title suggests, has anyone tried one of these reasonably inexpensive CF-to-IDE adapters on the RC2014?

Also, could anyone recommend a source for 128Mb (?) CF cards.

TIA, Gentlemen.

Cheerful regards, Mike

[Scott Lawrence]

Oooh.  I should get one of those.

rathole:

I love the interface of the 4th gen "clickwheel" iPod... the one with the blue-ish screen.  They have an excellent audio output stage.  Anyway, I've put hard drive adapters in those to CF... It has a 1.8" IDE connector.  So I've put 1.8"-CF, which works great.  Most recently, I put in a 1.8"-CF-SD adapter, which also surprisingly works.  But If i can do 1.8"-3.5" or 2.5" IDE then i can throw a terabyte drive on that interface, mount it in a small desktop box, and have a nice interface to play lots of music. ;)

-s

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[Tor-Eirik Bakke Lunde]

I've used them on my RC2014 build, the green one attached works while the black one doesn't (haven't spent the time figuring out why) - widely available from AliExpress and various ebay sellers. The schematic and gerbers for the card I'm using them with is up on github at  https://github.com/tebl/RC2014/tree/master/RC2014%20IDE.

Bought my CF cards off of ebay, but encountered problems with the card being slightly smaller than the image so ended up using them as 64MB cards instead (ended up installing CP/M manually with the details from Grants page). I've heard people reference that the Cisco cards should be good though - have one, but haven't used it thus far.

[Eric Matecki]

I did buy two of these :

http://www.ebay.fr/itm/32-64-128-256-512MB-1-2-4-8-16GB-CompactFlash-CF-Carte-M%C3%A9moire-Standard-OEM/371656531487

(from china => 3+ weeks shipping)

I think they are refurbished ones, the cases are just so slightly different on each one... not sure though...

Copied (with dd on a Mac) the CF that comes with Spencer's CF board to them.

One for 'work' (hardware development, CP/M 'drivers'/bios), one for 'fun' (CP/M software testing and development).

They work reliably for about a month now (at maybe an hour/day on average).

That's somewhat short of a test to go all the way to recommend them, but...

Personally I'm happy with them... for the price... for now.

[Ed Brindley]

I'm succesfully using an adapter that looks the same as your black one, so it might be that you've got a defective one.

My circuit is basically Scott Baker's one adapted for a 40 pin IDE pinout, I'll check and see if it differs from yours.

Also another +1 for the Cisco cards, they seem to work well.

Cheers,

Ed

[Mike, K8LH]

Thank you, Gentlemen.  Seems reasonably economical to try...

Cheerful regards, Mike

[Bill Wuttke]

Mike,

I've used the black one, or similar, also. I've used two different brands of CF cards, Kingston 128MB and SanDisk 256MB. The Kingston worked well, but, in order for the SanDisk to work, the CF board needed to be placed closer to the CPU in the backplane.

Bill

[Peter Willard]

We do have a general lack of buffers in the design,,, so not surprising