Manuel Bilderbeek wrote: > Hans-Peter Zeedijk wrote: >> Has anyone experience with the MSX compact flash ata-ide cardreaders? >> 1. Can it be used as a harddisk? (Boot) >> 2. Data on it can also be accessed (read/write) on other cardreaders >> for PC? (DATA exchange) >> 3. Does it plug in direct to IDE connector on the controller or (PC) >> mainboard? Or onto IDE cable? >> 4. Is it build and delivered nice? (ie is it a plain PCB or in a >> casing?) >> 5. How does it performes compared with other IDE devices? (HD, >> CD-ROM, on both MSX and PC) >> 6. Were can it be found/ordered/ >> 7. What are the prices? > > To be short: it's a very good product and every question you asked > above should be answered with a positive answer. The reader itself > can only be used on MSX, by the way. The CF card can be used on PC > too, of course.
You sure about that last thing? Meaning, you tried? Because afaik it should just work. Well, anyways, PC cardreaders are very cheap nowadays and using Sunrise's adapter is probably too much trouble, as the IDE connectors are inside the PC case. About the performance, on my 7MHz MSX2 it is slightly better than a regular harddisk, the harddisk reached 230kb/s and from CompactFlash it read at a nice rate of 260kb/s. And I would recommend buying the CF-IDE interface, with that you don't need an external power supply and no cables, and it's more compact. Oh, and two important questions you forgot: A: Is it silent? Q: Yes! A: Is the data still on it if I drop it? Q: Yes! ^_^ ~Grauw --- Ushiko-san! Kimi wa doushite, Ushiko-san nan da!! _______________________________________________ MSX mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Info page: http://lists.stack.nl/mailman/listinfo/msx
