23 Sep
2008
23 Sep
'08
12:01 p.m.
Gene Buckle wrote:
There has been a lot of activity recently among the
Apple II/IIgs
crowd about using the combination of a cheap SCSI to IDE bridge and an
IDE to CF adapter to use Compact Flash memory cards in their computers.
This apparently is working quite well and after doing some research
I've seen examples of people using this set up to replace dead SCSI
drives in vintage Macs, Suns and at least one NeXT workstation.
There is a vendor selling these adapters for $30 each. The eBay item
# is 350044078177. I did some digging and the documentation can be
found here:
http://dl.acard.com/manual/english/aec-7720u&uw.pdf
I hope you folks can use this to revive some bit of rare hardware that
needed a new hard disk. :)
Jerome Fine replies:
The US $30 is the buy now price. There are over 500 units available.
These units seems to be ONLY the SCSI to IDE bridge cards.
For the IDE to CF bridge cards, there are a number of sources available.
There are also a number of options available for the actual CF cards.
Since I haven't used any myself, I don't have any details. However, I
am aware that not all applications are compatible with all of the different
hardware that is available. Therefore, until a set of all 3 components
is shown to actually work in a given environment, I suggest that it is best
to not assume that everything will automatically work.
One of the advantages of the IDE to CF card is that at least some of them
have indicator lights to display any activity that is taking place. In
addition,
they range up to 32 GB in size and some have a 5 year warranty.
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine