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fgh · 11 November 2016, 13:23

Welcome to the board, both of you!

It should accept both types according to this.

You could format a card or HDD with WinUAE, or on the a500 booting from a wb disk with hdtoolbox, or from the Octagon disk, or another hdd should you have one connected somehow.

If it's indeed an Octagon 508 and not an AT-BUS 508, it's SCSI, so you cannot use a CF directly.
You'd need an (expensive) scsi-ide adapter (Acard or Yamaha) or something like the scsi2sd.

Finally, old scsi controllers do not nessecarily work with modern large drives.
I don't know about this one, but I'd start with something <= 1GB.

Edit: Ah. quite an old post. Oh well..

11 November 2016, 13:23	#3
fgh Registered User Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Norway Posts: 820	Welcome to the board, both of you! It should accept both types according to this. You could format a card or HDD with WinUAE, or on the a500 booting from a wb disk with hdtoolbox, or from the Octagon disk, or another hdd should you have one connected somehow. If it's indeed an Octagon 508 and not an AT-BUS 508, it's SCSI, so you cannot use a CF directly. You'd need an (expensive) scsi-ide adapter (Acard or Yamaha) or something like the scsi2sd. Finally, old scsi controllers do not nessecarily work with modern large drives. I don't know about this one, but I'd start with something <= 1GB. Edit: Ah. quite an old post. Oh well..