After a CF-IDE, but got a bit confused.

h0ffman · 19 February 2014, 13:31

Hi Guys

I'm after a CF->IDE adapter and card for my A600. The card can be anything from 256 meg or upwards really. I saw this on eBay and thought it was a pretty good price as it includes the card..

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Amiga-600-...item1c35da9bf7

but then the note in there for A600 scared me..

Quote:

Please note that if buying for an Amiga 600, make sure that you have ROM version 37.3 or higher.

Is this ROM version required to see the 4gb card? or to see the CF-IDE at all?

Of course if someone is happy to sell me a kit for my A600 which they know works, hit me up

Amiga1992 · 19 February 2014, 13:35

37.300 could have a 40MB limit on the IDE port.
So if you ever had a hard drive bigger than 40MB in your machine and it worked fine, chances are you'll be fine.

I still consider a 4GB card overkill anyway. Never used anything bigger than 2GB. My A600 had a 256MB card for ages and it was fine, now it has 1GB just because that was the smaller thing I could find at a reasonable price.

fitzsteve · 19 February 2014, 13:50

Hi h0ffman

I can sell you the same kit he is offering (inc 4gb Transcend card) for £20 inc postage.

But as he says you need to have 37.300 Roms or above, i.e 37.300,37.350 or KS3.1 40.063 to use IDE, the older 2.0 rev 37.299 for example does not have IDE support at all!

The 40mb limit Akira mentions has never been an issue for me.

Drop me a PM if you want mine, to check your Rom revision just switch on your Amiga with no Disk inserted and you can see it on the boot screen

Edit:

I also have a 2gb Transcend card here I could do a little cheaper, I used it with my A600 that I since sold.

h0ffman · 19 February 2014, 15:10

cheers steve, will check out the old girl when i get home.

fitzsteve · 19 February 2014, 15:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by h0ffman

cheers steve, will check out the old girl when i get home.

You're welcome

You can see it just here:

Jope · 19 February 2014, 18:24

Hehe, you should have asked at Datastorm. I'd have bored you to death with CF related minutia. :-)

Amiga1992 · 20 February 2014, 13:05

Dang, you were there and I didn't meet you, Jope? :/

h0ffman · 20 February 2014, 19:26

37.300! Wicked!

Jope · 20 February 2014, 20:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by Akira

Dang, you were there and I didn't meet you, Jope? :/

Yeh, at such a small party even. :-/

Quote:

Originally Posted by h0ffman

37.300! Wicked!

Aww yeah. Pfs3aio is your friend!

Amiga1992 · 20 February 2014, 20:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jope

Aww yeah. Pfs3aio is your friend!

Depends!
I have it installed in my stock A600 and it eats up about 600KB of RAM.
Seems like for unexpanded/2MB RAM 68000 machines it is best to use FFS.
SFS also yields similar results to PFS3

THread here:
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=71976

Jope · 21 February 2014, 18:03

Yeah, without fast RAM pfs3 is not your friend. :-)

You got to be quite careful with the amount of buffers too.

FFS is a real pain at around 1GB, validation takes ages and eats up loads of RAM.

19 February 2014, 13:50	#3
fitzsteve Professional slacker! Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Kent, UK Age: 44 Posts: 6,683	Hi h0ffman I can sell you the same kit he is offering (inc 4gb Transcend card) for £20 inc postage. But as he says you need to have 37.300 Roms or above, i.e 37.300,37.350 or KS3.1 40.063 to use IDE, the older 2.0 rev 37.299 for example does not have IDE support at all! The 40mb limit Akira mentions has never been an issue for me. Drop me a PM if you want mine, to check your Rom revision just switch on your Amiga with no Disk inserted and you can see it on the boot screen Edit: I also have a 2gb Transcend card here I could do a little cheaper, I used it with my A600 that I since sold. Last edited by fitzsteve; 19 February 2014 at 14:00.

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19 February 2014, 13:35	#2
Amiga1992 Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: ? Posts: 19,645	37.300 could have a 40MB limit on the IDE port. So if you ever had a hard drive bigger than 40MB in your machine and it worked fine, chances are you'll be fine. I still consider a 4GB card overkill anyway. Never used anything bigger than 2GB. My A600 had a 256MB card for ages and it was fine, now it has 1GB just because that was the smaller thing I could find at a reasonable price.

19 February 2014, 15:10	#4
h0ffman Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Salisbury Posts: 744	cheers steve, will check out the old girl when i get home.

19 February 2014, 18:24	#6
Jope - Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Helsinki / Finland Age: 43 Posts: 9,863	Hehe, you should have asked at Datastorm. I'd have bored you to death with CF related minutia. :-)

20 February 2014, 13:05	#7
Amiga1992 Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: ? Posts: 19,645	Dang, you were there and I didn't meet you, Jope? :/

20 February 2014, 19:26	#8
h0ffman Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Salisbury Posts: 744	37.300! Wicked!

21 February 2014, 18:03	#11
Jope - Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Helsinki / Finland Age: 43 Posts: 9,863	Yeah, without fast RAM pfs3 is not your friend. :-) You got to be quite careful with the amount of buffers too. FFS is a real pain at around 1GB, validation takes ages and eats up loads of RAM.

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