[Coco] IDE to SD card Adapters.

[Gene Heskett]

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.

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>
>
> 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.
>
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