I am pleased to announce my first new piece of hardware of 2003 - Compact Flash Interface.
This small adaptor board allows you to use a Compact Flash card with the Atom hard drive interface. I had this idea when the hard drive I use in my 'Sam In A Can' developed a lot of surface errors and corrupt sectors. By using CF cards (which are getting fairly cheap) it provides a great new storage solution instead of hard drives. As CF are essentially IDE, they can be used just like a hard drive with BDOS. I have tested my interface so far using a 32 Meg Samsung CF card (which holds 40 Sam disks worth of data) and a Toshiba 64 Meg CF Card (79 disks worth!). The small interface can easily sit inside the Sam, an ideal place is just behind the bay cover for drive 2 - I am supplying the interface with 4 sticky backed stands so it can be securely mounted inside the Sam. If you require a short IDE cable to keep the cabling neat I can make them up on request. The Compact Flash Interface is available now, priced £19.99. Also available for this interface is an eject button module which clips over the Compact Flash socket to make it easier to eject the Compact Flash. This is available for £4.50 Photos of the interface are on my website - URL below. Colin ==== Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the Sam Website: http://www.quazar.clara.net/sam/ Issue Three of "Sam Revival" Magazine Out Now !
