[Coco] IDE to SD card Adapters.

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 15 December 2017 21:25:32 Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:

> The GlensideIDE handles multiple cluster segments fine. I was running
> 4x 1gig partitions on mine under NitrOS9.

Thanks Bill, that is good to know. I have a pair of 1 gig's on mine, 
partitioned differently, so one is running on a cluster size of 4, while 
the whole other drive is running on 16 sectors per bit. On a cloud-9 
scsi interface. Neither one has ever sneezed.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net>
> To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Fri, Dec 15, 2017 9:15 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] IDE to SD card Adapters.
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> On Friday 15 December 2017 18:15:42 rietveld rietveld wrote:> I have
> my doubts about the IDE's ability to read the SD card via the> CF
> Adapter. But I suppose if u are adventures enough you can partition> a
> SD card into a 256mb and clone a known working CF and image it to> the
> SD. I would imagine that if the IDE will read the SD card it would>
> see the image as if it were a real CF>I would not make a partition
> greater than 128 megs on the coco. That way you don't have to find out
> if the glenside ide properly handles a multiple sector cluster bit in
> the allocation map.> Sent from my BlackBerry Passport Red Edition.>  
> Original Message> From: Steve Pedersen> Sent: Friday, December 15,
> 2017 5:55 PM> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts> Reply To:
> CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts> Subject: Re: [Coco] IDE to SD
> card Adapters.>>> Well I found some SD to CF adapter for only 7 bux so
> I ordered 2 of> thoes. So SDcard==>SD2CF adapter==>CF2IDE>
> adapter==>IDECable==>Glenside IDE card. So many interconnects and>
> potential for failure ugg will be interesting.>> On A side note I
> found somthing interesting made by toshiba Called the> Flash Air It's
> an sd card you can send files to it via wifi. This> might be somthing
> really cool for my SDC. So far I havent found on> amazon a source for
> the 4th gen cards but when I do I am going to get> some to experiment
> with.>> --> Coco mailing list> Coco at maltedmedia.com>
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