28 Aug
2020
28 Aug
'20
10:52 a.m.
I've standardized on, and been happy with these:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000415725711.html
There's a lot of vendors that sell them, including on ebay and Amazon. I
haven't really had any problem with those adapters, including on native ISA
IDE controllers and XT-IDE.
There's IDE to CF adapters too, but I find SD cards easier to use and
cheaper/easier to get in bulk.
Pat
On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 12:07 PM Noel Chiappa via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
After having a run of almost half a dozen IDE hard
drive failures recently
in
a short period of time (on my older desktops which use them, I've decided
that
I should see if there's an IDE emulator (using SD cards) available I could
switch to. (I'm not sure why I had so many failures in such a short
period; I
can only conclude that they're too old now, and reaching the end of their
service lives.
So soes anyone have one (or more) they can recommend? (IDE simulators
only; I
don't want to have to mess around changing anything more than I
_absolutely_
have to)? I did find these guys:
http://store.mesanet.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=74_64
in an online search - the CFADPTHD seems like it's close to what I'd want,
except it's Compact Flash; I'd have preferred SD but I guess converting
their interface to IDE is more work.
Noel