[Coladam] IDE

[Slopsema, Doug]

It is an interesting idea.  From what I can remember there was an issue
with the internal IDE controller working with faster IDE drives.  If the
IDE drive ran too fast it wouldn't work reliably with the Adam because
there appeared to be a lack of buffering on the controller.  The faster
drives would return the data quicker than the controller was expecting
and not acknowledge the data transfer.  I am afraid that the
compactFlash card is going to run much faster than one of the older IDE
hard drives so it may have the same problem as the 1gb and newer drives
that I had tried.  As to where to get an adapter, I have seen them at
various computer stores on the web.  The following is one such link:
http://www.computergate.com/products/item.cfm?prodcd=IFICFD5


-----Original Message-----
From: coladam-bounces at adamcon.org [mailto:coladam-bounces at adamcon.org]
On Behalf Of Frances &/or Richard Clee
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 2:56 PM
To: rfd at cwru.edu; coladam at adamcon.org
Subject: [Coladam] IDE

Wonder where he got the IDE card for the Adam. And I wonder where an IDE

to compact flash (or similar) adapter comes from, and what sort of 
supporting hardware or driver it would demand.
This idea sounds absolutely lovely if it's workable - especially since a

cheap little 64MB flash card is likely all the Adam can handle anyway.
Maybe one should establish contact here, to likely mutual benefit.

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