Male SD to 40-pin/3.5" IDE/PATA Adapter

[Geijer]

Do any of you have success with "Male SD to 40-pin/3.5" IDE/PATA Adapter" (a bit down on http://amigamaniac.com/cf_to_ide.html)?

Can't get my A4000 to recognize it, neither on its own or together with a cdrom or harddrive? Have tried with a 2GB SD card.

The adapter doesn't have any way to set master/slave?



Any ideas, anyone, please?

Thanks.

[rkauer]

I have the 44pin version and it works as a dream with 1Gb or less SD cards.

The problem is the (almost) totality of 2Gb & over cards are SDHC, which will not work on the Amiga, nor on this controller.

[Geijer]

Oki, thanks.

It's listed to work with up to 16GB SDHC and it do work in a PC with the 2GB card. But I will try a non SDHC...

[Geijer]

Have tested some more now and have come to the conclusion that it doesn't work in my A2000.

Have tested with a 256MB, 1GB SD and 2GB SDHC. All works in Windows (but only alone on the IDE bus).

I give up, should I look for a CF solution instead?

[Zetr0]

I have a 44 pin version also -

although on the native IDE i could only get a 32MB card to work - where as via a SCSI-IDE bridge I have had 4GB working (formatted on the CyberSCSI2 as 3.78GB) - under OS3.9

Again - couldn't even get the 512MB KingMax card to play ball on the Native IDE on the unbranded 32MB =(

On the A500+ with the GVP SCSI controller the 512MB would be prepared take an install ok, but the 4GB card would crap out - I suspect this could be a controller issue.

Its kinda hit an miss - but worth the couple of euros for some experimentation =D


I will say that none of the micro-sd adapters (transflash) units worked at all =(

[Geijer]

Asked this question:

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Kontakt:
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Produkt: 91654 Delock Card Reader IDE 40pin to SD Card
Betriebsystem: Windows 7
Chipsatz: Seriennummer:
Kaufdatum: 2010-11-01
Fehlerbeschreibung:
Can't get it to work together with other IDE device on the same bus.
Should I use it as Master, Slave or Cable select. Can it be changed?

(I have the same problem in Linux but didn't want a "We do not support Linux/AmigaOS" kind of answere.)

Got this answere:

Dear Sir Geijersson,
thank you for your message.

You can use our hardware only as a single IDE device.
In this case, the inserted SD card is automatically recognized as MASTER

It look like they took some shortcuts, too bad I bought two of them!

[thomas]

Originally Posted by Geijer

in my A2000.

An A2000 does not have an IDE controller, so such an adapter certainly does not work in an A2000, because there is nothing to connect it to. ;-)

You see, the most important information is missing: which controller do you have?

A Buddha by chance? The Buddha is known to have problems with flash storage. If it's a Buddha Flash, you are lucky, because you can upgrade the firmware with this patch: http://aminet.net/package/driver/media/IDEFix_patches
If it's not the flash version, you need to burn a new eprom with the updated firmware.

[Geijer]

Originally Posted by thomas

An A2000 does not have an IDE controller, so such an adapter certainly does not work in an A2000, because there is nothing to connect it to. ;-)
...

Oh, my bad, I meant A4000, my A2000 is dead since longe time ago. R.I.P.

But maybe it will work in my CD32 + SX-1 that I plan to get started again after 10 years of dormancy.
I also have an old A500 with an GVP controller, but have no plans touching that one....

[cosmicfrog]

I would give thomas suggestion ago as I have never had a problem with these with my tandem ide/cd card