16 July 2016, 20:33 | #1 |
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Hack@Home: 16GB mSATA SSD to Amiga IDE - for about £10
Hello my fellow EAB'ers!
I have been so busy over the last couple of weeks I have ached to post this here. So today was the day I finally got some time with my Amiga's over the last week - and now I can post results for you guys, whom hold a special place in my retro-heart! So what is all this about, well absolutely YONKS ago (please note that is an official unit of time ) I posted a small series on here and on AmiBay a Hack@Home article if you will, just simple cheap (pocket money) projects you can do at home, I tried to do a couple a month, from upgrading CHIP RAM to ATX power supply conversion, however work, family and to be fair FTL / Grimrock managed to get in the way. Anyway - got some time today - so here goes
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16 July 2016, 20:34 | #2 |
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Conclusions I found that this adaptor assembly turned out quite "plug and play" however there are a couple of caveats to this. The most concerning is the fact you need to ensure the 44 pin IDE to mSATA adaptor is the 5 volt version, sadly to add confusion in the market there exists 3.3v 44pin IDE. Getting these connectors from Asia takes time, while the SSD and another adaptor arrived quite quickly, I was waiting for the 5 volt version of the 44pin IDE -> mSATA adaptor for nearly 5 weeks!. Another little point to note is the Activity LED, both on the USB adaptor and the Amiga - Here it is Inactive As you can see its very low output - but still alight. Here it is Active It is a tad annoying, I suspect its the way the transistor is wired on the 44pin IDE to mSATA adaptor, I will look into this a bit more, it is a little niggle. Lastly I want to thank my cat "Ashiee Catamoto" for helping me with the guitar chords in the office earlier - Last edited by Zetr0; 01 August 2016 at 12:17. |
17 July 2016, 01:44 | #3 |
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reverse the ide 2 usb and get usb on Amiga - ok it wont work but why no USB2IDE adapters?
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17 July 2016, 09:06 | #4 |
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Nice thread, thanks for the infos.
About SysInfo, these numbers are not accurate, I sometimes get exactly the same when the benchmark is not ran. Could you please run SysSpeed and show us results ? |
17 July 2016, 11:06 | #5 |
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This looks really good and I have wanted to upgrade my 1gb CF in my 1200 for ages!
To avoid the long wait - is one of these the correct one? The model numbers seem to match from your picture and the one on Amazon? https://www.amazon.co.uk/JaneDream-M...+IDE+Converter Last edited by Havie; 17 July 2016 at 11:17. |
17 July 2016, 11:33 | #6 |
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I have an old ssd from an eee. It was terrible in that due to its speed however on an Amiga it will probably be fine. Must give this a go
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17 July 2016, 11:51 | #7 |
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Nice write up MR Z
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17 July 2016, 15:12 | #8 |
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For those in the US needing these and noticed the listing on ebay UK wont ship here.
Laptop mSata to 44 Pin: http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-5-Inch-For...8AAOSw~gRVtaMq SanDisk 16GB mSATA Drive: http://www.ebay.com/itm/For-SanDisk-...IAAOSwr7ZW34yQ mSata USB Adapter: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hot-sale-USB...oAAOSw3ydVzg3T |
17 July 2016, 19:30 | #9 |
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A little hot in the workshop is it?
Great write-up. I think this is 1/3 what I paid for my CF setup a few years back. |
17 July 2016, 20:22 | #10 |
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LOL, Sadly I was melting - that office/workshop/conservatory is an oven in the summer - I am just glad I covered up my nipples - or the facebook police might have me!
Thanks I hope its useful! =) |
17 July 2016, 20:48 | #11 |
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Zetr0, great thread, look forward to the next episode.
PS your humour/banter tickles me everytime. |
17 July 2016, 23:53 | #12 |
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Mega thanks Zetr0!!!!
Sadly, all Ebay items are Out of Stock :-( (except the links supplied by Acill) [UPDATE] "SSD" item is now available! Yeah! Last edited by LTAC; 18 July 2016 at 11:15. |
18 July 2016, 11:12 | #13 |
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Excellent tutorial Zetr0 ! I am tempted to do this to my A1200 as altho CF cards are a great way to add a hdd (of sorts) they can be a bit slow in reading/writing. I may even do a video of me putting it all in.
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18 July 2016, 12:01 | #14 |
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About the USB Blaster, this is a Xilinx one, not an Altera. Beware
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01 August 2016, 12:11 | #15 |
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Something I forgot to add - some tests
Please note this is with default buffers and PFS3 running on a Vampire 2 : A080 - SILVER 7 Core. That is a sustained data rate. Interesting thing I have noticed here is that if I run the test 3 times in succession the system locks up and requires a reboot. Obviously I was curious to ensure that this isn't a strange feature so I copied a 180MB archive file from one partition to another other - unpacked it, tested it, then packed it back up and copied over to the other partition. All in all its quite normal except for the peculiar lock up issue with SysSpeed. |
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02 August 2016, 09:44 | #17 |
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@modrobert
You can gain a bit of extra speed if you use PFS3 or SFS instead of FFS. In the case of SFS's a minimum of 20% faster - although you do need a minimum 020 CPU RE: Xilinx branded programmer - some Xilinx programmers are not recognized with Altera software (Quartus / ISE) - mine does \o/\O/ YAY \O/\o/ - to be fair I should of mentioned it to be honest - just didn't think - thought it would make a good shot =) @TuKo I use Quartus / Quartus II / ISE - works with that, I also have a couple of Altera USB blasters floating about too - and I have forgotten how many parallel JTAG programmers I have - I swear they are breeding! Anyway its good to always be prepared! =D Last edited by Zetr0; 02 August 2016 at 09:50. |
05 August 2016, 21:24 | #18 |
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Inspired by this I thought I would try something similar with my A4000.
I bought one of these which lets me mount the mSATA drive in a zorro slot (£17.90): https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00J3XT7E0 It seems to work well and HDToolBox recognised is straight away. There is no master/slave jumper, it only works as a master. No biggie. I'm using a KingSpec mSATAIII 32GB drive (£12.99): https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01HMD6JIE I'm going to need a molex power extension as power doesn't reach the zorro area well. |
05 August 2016, 22:27 | #19 |
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Any advantage to using an mSATA unit instead of an IDE disk-on-module or SSD?
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06 August 2016, 07:51 | #20 |
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I don't see any tbh.
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