Re: SCSI CompactFlash success

["Jason Whorton" <jason at microxl.com>]

A CF card probably doesn't take as long to spin up as a real hard drive.
:-)
    Thank you for your report.  Some combinations of old technology and new
are hit and miss, so I am glad to hear of it.
    I once hooked up a Plextor SCSI CD-ROM tower and all 7 drives were seen
by the SCSI utility disk.  I was pretty surprised.

Thank you,
Jason Whorton




"Phil Abel" <phil_nonospam_abel@nonospam_prodigy_nonospam.net> wrote in
message news:wl9sa.193$wT4.39513135@newssvr15.news.prodigy.com...
> I just had success getting a SCSI compactflash memory card reader to work
on
> my GS and thought I would share the specifics--
>
> 1) Picked up an external SCSI PCMCIA memory card reader/writer off ebay.
>
> 2) Picked up a PCMCIA -> CompactFlash adapter plug
>
> 3) "Borrowed" a 16mb CF card from my digital camera and crossed my
fingers.
>
> GS/OS recognized the CF drive right away.  I put down a 16MB ProDOS
> partition with no problems.  Did some sample read/write/delete ops with no
> problems.  Took awhile to put down the initial low level format, but I/O
is
> pretty fast.  GS/OS recognizes it as a fixed drive, so as far as I can
tell
> it would require a restart if I wanted to change media.  But I now have CF
> capability for about $20-$25 in parts.  Since the drive is PCMCIA I assume
I
> could have used any PCMCIA drive, possibily even a type III PCMCIA hard
> drive.
>
> Not sure what I will use it for...  Maybe when bigger CF cards get a
little
> cheaper, it will be a good back up device.  Fun project anyway.
>
>
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