compact flash compatibility

liquidsmoke · 31 July 2021, 18:11

i purchased a cf to ide from ebay

it did come with a sandisk 4gb card but thats not big enough for me.

the seller said that only sandisk cf cards will work

sandisk cards, particularly large capacity are really expensive.

how come things like transcend ones wont work?
theyre much cheaper and transcend is a good make.

i dont want to name and shame particularly but the guy seems adamant about sandisk and claims he was the first to bring cf to ide to the market etc etc

Krashan · 31 July 2021, 18:20

Get SD to IDE next time... Saves a lot of headaches.

Mathesar · 31 July 2021, 18:49

Quote:

Originally Posted by Krashan

Get SD to IDE next time... Saves a lot of headaches.

True, more compatible and easier to use.

liquidsmoke · 01 August 2021, 01:18

ok
do i need a 44pin or 40pin sd to ide?

i have an a1200. i think its a rev 2b

alenppc · 01 August 2021, 06:20

Many CF card brands will work on the internal A1200 connector, including Transcend. If using cards bigger than 8GB, you should use kickstart 3.1.4 at least because 3.1 will fail to boot from 16+GB cards due to size limit issues. It could be made to work though but it involves a bit of partitioning trickery.

Krashan · 01 August 2021, 08:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by liquidsmoke

ok
do i need a 44pin or 40pin sd to ide?

44

31 July 2021, 18:11	#1
liquidsmoke Registered User Join Date: Oct 2019 Location: UK Posts: 107	compact flash compatibility i purchased a cf to ide from ebay it did come with a sandisk 4gb card but thats not big enough for me. the seller said that only sandisk cf cards will work sandisk cards, particularly large capacity are really expensive. how come things like transcend ones wont work? theyre much cheaper and transcend is a good make. i dont want to name and shame particularly but the guy seems adamant about sandisk and claims he was the first to bring cf to ide to the market etc etc

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