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Adtron SCSI Compact Flash drive?

I'm well aware of the 2GB HFS limit, but that is a file system limit, not a hardware limit.
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If you have your card and bigger media, please give it a shot. I'd .be interested in the hardware limits of this card, as I'm sure all purchasers are. . Mine is coming by eBay Global Shipping Program do I probably won't get it for another week.

 
I had a 2GB sandisk compactflash card. Tried it out, but the patched apple SC wouldnt see it. And the drive setup said Unsupported disk.

Sooo, I used micronet and it seen the capacity, partitioned it, and is booting on my 520c 68K parts machine (used it as a test base). Full partition, since its 2GB. works fine.

 
Micronet, never heard of it. Who made it?

Also, now we know it can do at least 2 GB. I'll report back once I have my 4 GB card.

Great to hear these are all working out so well for everyone. We made a real find considering the cost of the alternative.

 
Rob Blessin of Black Hole (NeXT gear) mentioned on the nextcomputers.org forums that he bought a bunch of Adtron flash drives.

Rob Blessin[/url]"]I picked up 10 ADTRON 192Mb scsi flash drives and they work great
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Well with an install of 7.5 on the Adtron my powerbook 100 and I got sad Mac. I am reinstalling it to see if that will fix it as the two 512 mb cards showed up.

 
Well hard disk toolkit 2.5 needs a 68030 or better so I guess I need to find something that works on the adtron that works on a 68000 like silver lining or something.

 
Patched apple file won't see it. Tried that first, the drive works fine in my 540 so if I can't get something that is 68000 compatible then I'll just put another drive in I guess.

 
I was also thinking that maybe filling only one CF slot would help. I don't know how the two CF cards show up (do they just look like one drive?) but maybe that would help?

 
I put a 4GB CF in slot 1 of my Adtron adapter and Hard Disk SpeedTools 3.3 had no trouble seeing it and turning it into 2 2GB HFS partitions. I put a system folder on the main drive and it booted up no problem. So, we now know for sure that 2GB is not the upper limit of these adapters.

This sucker flies! It has to be at least an order of magnitude faster than the 320MB 2.5" SCSI drive I had in there.

Mine also has the older 1998 2.02 firmware, so that does not appear to be a limitation.

From what I was reading, one needs to have two identical CF cards to use both slots, you can't use two different types.

 
That's great to hear Paralel.

I'm hoping mine comes tomorrow. For me, I have the single slot version. I went with this one because I was worried about the compatibility with the two slots. I thought they may show up as LUNs and older Macs would have a problem with that. This proves that wrong because can only go with one slot. I'm glad to be wrong in this case :)

 
I only have an 8GB card here at the moment. I need to order a bigger one anyway, so might as well.
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Were you able to try the 8GB card? Seems the 8GB card is cheaper than the 4GB card here so confirmation that it worked would be great.

 
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