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Will a compact flash to IDE adapter work?

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 11:45 pm
by RGB_Gamer
Will a compact flash to IDE adapter work and if so, would it need an external power supply?

Re: Will a compact flash to IDE adapter work?

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 11:47 pm
by emu_kidid
You'd need to wire up 5V (there's a solder pad available for this on the IDE-EXI I believe) and GND, but no external power required.

And yes, it should work.

Re: Will a compact flash to IDE adapter work?

Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 1:06 pm
by liquitt
i don't see why it shouldn't, either

Re: Will a compact flash to IDE adapter work?

Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2013 4:29 am
by piratesephiroth
What about as adapter like this?

If this works and the DMA thing gets sorted out nicely, the IDE-EXI will obsolete the SD Gecko... and this adapter will be the best thing ever.

Re: Will a compact flash to IDE adapter work?

Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2013 5:52 am
by megalomaniac
thats a nice find...i was looking for this a while back but none were available...
about time they showed up on the market...

since the description states it also works as a bootable device, then its not dependent on using OS drivers like some other adapters...
so it "should" work...

Re: Will a compact flash to IDE adapter work?

Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2013 5:58 am
by tueidj
Those things have been around for ages, they're basically just a SD->CF converter (with an IDE header added). I got one in 2009 but it's extremely unreliable for SDHC.

Re: Will a compact flash to IDE adapter work?

Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2013 6:02 am
by megalomaniac
ages?? hmmm...maybe i didnt search properly while looking on ebay...
thanks for the input about their unreliability...you have this same type? has the design changed??

Re: Will a compact flash to IDE adapter work?

Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2013 6:52 am
by piratesephiroth
ah, that seems to be the only model with a female IDE connector... it would be a shame if it had issues.

Re: Will a compact flash to IDE adapter work?

Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2013 8:12 am
by tueidj
megalomaniac wrote:ages?? hmmm...maybe i didnt search properly while looking on ebay...
thanks for the input about their unreliability...you have this same type? has the design changed??
I actually have no idea what's inside mine, it's a different design with a sealed block... basically something like this mounted on the board with a couple of LEDs and the IDE and floppy power headers. It looks like it could actually support two CF cards, since on the back there's another row of pads connected to the IDE pins. It also works without the external power being connected at all.

Re: Will a compact flash to IDE adapter work?

Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2013 8:56 am
by piratesephiroth

Re: Will a compact flash to IDE adapter work?

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 2:00 pm
by tehscene
I know this is an old topic but I was able to get the following working:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1pc-New-SD-To-3 ... SwIBBUbVe8

I have the IDE-EXI in slot B

Then its connected with the IDE ribbon to the SD to IDE PCB. I had an old SATA to IDE usb converter with power supply so that is the power supply I used.

Something like this would do for the power supply:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SATA-PATA-IDE-t ... Sw6BtVVQmz

I'm using a 4gb SD card for testing formatted FAT32 with 32 clusters.

I used swiss 0.4 compressed installed onto qoob pro chip. Swiss sees the SD card without any problems.

Hope this helps somebody.

Re: Will a compact flash to IDE adapter work?

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2016 7:48 am
by megalomaniac
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Re: Will a compact flash to IDE adapter work?

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2016 7:51 am
by ShockSlayer
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Re: Will a compact flash to IDE adapter work?

Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2016 6:19 am
by bentomo
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Re: Will a compact flash to IDE adapter work?

Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2016 10:59 am
by badsector
I think it's a great idea, because it is way more complicated and expensive than SD Gecko.

Re: Will a compact flash to IDE adapter work?

Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2016 3:26 pm
by tehscene
After research I realized what everyone is summarizing that the same can be done cheaper with just an SD Gecko. As an aside, I'm glad to see all of you are into BBC....I mean who isn't right?