Hi,
I have some nice CF Cards and the CF to IDE-adapters on some of my PCs which work flawless.
I tried to use them on PEG1 and PEG2 but they're not even detected ...

I think it would be a perfect team, especially because of the low memory footprint of MOS.

Anyone tried the same with better success ?
bye

Please read this article I made about SSD and Pegasos.
It's not as easy as on standard-BIOS x86 machines.. Some
work on the Pegasos and some don't. OF seems to have
issues initializing both I tried.

.. interesting article ..
If I got you right, you had success with a PEG2 but not with a Peg1 ?

bye

Well, OF didn't find my drives on either Peg1 or Peg2 so that's the
issue. MorphOS found my iDOC but not the SimpleTech IDE Flash
drive.

I know Gunnar von Boehn got a CF with adapter to work so it's
possible.. Somehow..

Adapters from ACS Control work fine with Pegasos I and Pegasos II.

We have tested these in house (and I keep these adapters specifically so we can keep testing them!)

There is another company (German) which makes another set of boards which are much the same. Basically CF-IDE is a straight interface from CF to IDE pins, there is very little extra logic required. It may be more down to your CF card than the actual interface (some CF cards are less than compatible)

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They don't have a distributor in Europe, do they ?

(I once contacted mach5products, the company producing the mounting plates for ACS' adapters, they didn't).

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Can you remember the name, please ?


My experience with CF->IDE-adapters with my Peg is:
When I bought my Peg II 20 months ago, I also ordered a CD->IDE-adapter from
http://stores.ebay.de/NRG-Systems-GmbH.
As it doesn't support cable select, I configured it as master (my changeable hard drive as slave).
I took an uptodate 256 MB CF-Card from SanDisk, formatted it in my Psion mxPro and copied some files to it. Then I connected it to the adapter.
The OF recognized the "IDE" drive. I could also list the files on the card.
Linux recognized that there is a drive, but couldn't access it (dma timeout). Starting the Linux Kernel with nodma option "solved" this problem. I could access the drive, create partitions, ext2 format it, copy files to it...
MorphOS however - the OS I bought the card for - did not even recognize that there is something connected to the ide bus (had a look at serial output of the kernel when booting)

So the adapter works, the card works, MOS doesn't.

(similar problems with DVD-RAMs, but that's another topic...).

This is the experience most people have with it. Most flash drives tend not to work for some reason with the MorphOS IDE drivers.

With regards to the DMA in Linux, this may be the CF card reporting DMA when in fact it doesn't support it. This is slightly unlikely so in fact it could also be down to the cabling!

My Transcend and Sandisk "pro" cards work fine though with 80 core cables, on every position (CDROM only on another channel, booting Mupper 0.x at the time)

I suggest someone donate these boards and a CF card to Ralph or Piru or someone so they can fix up support.

I find one IDE to CF adapter support DMA in webside www.sintech.cn .And also the price is very cheap .There are all kinds of adapters produced by Sintech company .Pls try on contacting with them.